Chargé de Recherche at CNRS in Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon
Office: M7.110, ENS Lyon (site Monod), Lyon 7 (France)
Email:benjamin.apffel [at] ens-lyon.fr
I am a permanent researcher at CNRS/ENS Lyon 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.
Before that, I was a post-doctoral researcher at EPFL in Laboratory of Wave Engineering headed by Romain Fleury. 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