Laurette Tuckerman
Laurette Stephanie Tuckerman (born 1956) is a mathematical physicist working in the areas of hydrodynamic instability, bifurcation theory, and computational fluid dynamics. She is currently a director of research for the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, at the Physics and Mechanics of Heterogeneous Media Laboratory of ESPCI Paris.[1]
Early life
[edit]Tuckerman was born in New York City in 1956. Her mother was a journalist for the Agence France Presse covering the United Nations who had left France during World War II, and her father was a New York City union negotiator and devoted amateur pianist. She attended Hunter College High School.
Education
[edit]Tuckerman attended Wesleyan University and Princeton University and obtained a Ph.D in applied mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984.
Career
[edit]Tuckerman first worked at the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre in France and then at University of Texas at Austin, where she was a postdoc at the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and then a faculty member in the department of mathematics. In 1994, she became a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. She has also taught at Ecole Polytechnique and at École normale supérieure (Paris).
Awards
[edit]In 2002, she was elected as fellow of the American Physical Society[2] and in 2018 she became a fellow of Euromech.[3] She gave the Ludwig Prandtl Memorial lecture [4] at the 2024 GAMM meeting. She received the Émilie Du Châtelet prize from the Société Française de Physique in 2025.[5]
References
[edit]External links
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- Laurette Tuckerman publications indexed by Google Scholar
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