Post-doctoral researcher at EPFL in Laboratory of Wave Engineering (LWE) headed by Romain Fleury.
Office: ELB 034, Batiment ELB, Station 11, 1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)
Email:benjamin.apffel [at] epfl.ch
I am currently a post-doctoral researcher interested in wave physics, instabilities and fluid mechanics both from experimental and theoretical point of view. My research interests include wave propagation in time-varying media, topological systems, non-linear physics and instability control. When the opportunity arises, I also enjoy to setup table-top experiments both for research and teaching purpose.
I did my PhD at Institut Langevin (ESPCI - PSL) under the direction of Emmanuel Fort and Antonin Eddi on the topic 'From spatio-temporal control of water waves to dynamical stabilization of liquid interfaces', for which I obtained the Daniel Guinier prize of French Physics Society (SFP). I did my Master Degree in Quantum Mechanics at ICFP, as part of my education at the Ecole Normale Superieure