Annick Pouquet

Annick Pouquet
Born
Annick Gabrielle Pouquet

(1946-12-24) 24 December 1946 (age 77)
France
CitizenshipFrance, United States
EducationUniversity of Nice (B.S., Ph.D.),
University of Paris-VII (M.S.)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPlasma physics
InstitutionsObservatoire de Nice
National Center for Atmospheric Research
University of Colorado Boulder
Thesis (1976)
WebsiteAnnick Pouquet webpage

Annick Gabrielle Pouquet (born 24 December 1946)[1] is a computational plasma physicist specializing in plasma turbulence. She was awarded the 2020 Hannes Alfvén Prize for "fundamental contributions to quantifying energy transfer in magneto-fluid turbulence".[2] She currently holds positions in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and National Center for Atmospheric Research at the University of Colorado Boulder.[3]

The Politano–Pouquet relation, an exact scaling law for magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, was partly named after her.[4][5]

Early life and career

Pouquet graduated with a thèse d'état in astrophysics (French equivalent of Ph.D.) from the Observatoire de Nice in 1976, where she studied turbulence in the presence of a magnetic field using models and direct numerical simulation.[3][6] She then remained at the observatory upon graduation, eventually becoming the director of the observatory's Cassini Laboratory in 1998.[7]

In 2000, Pouquet joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) at the University of Colorado Boulder as director of the Geophysical Turbulence Program and section head of the Turbulence Numerics Team, where she led efforts to investigate wave-turbulence interactions in the Earth's atmosphere and in space.[8] Pouquet also founded the Earth and Sun System Laboratory as the first acting director in 2004 and became its deputy director between 2006 and 2009.

Pouquet retired in 2013 and became an emeritus Senior Scientist at NCAR.[9] She also became an adjunct professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics, and a visiting scientist of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.[2][7][10]

Honours and awards

Pouquet was inducted as a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2004.[11] She was awarded the Hannes Alfvén Prize in 2020.[2]

References

  1. ^ Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Dendy, Richard (13 January 2020). "The EPS Alfvén Prize 2020 is awarded to Dr Annick Pouquet". European Physical Society.
  3. ^ a b "Physics - Annick Pouquet". American Physical Society - Physics Magazine. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  4. ^ Politano, H.; Pouquet, A. (1998). "von K\'arm\'an--Howarth equation for magnetohydrodynamics and its consequences on third-order longitudinal structure and correlation functions". Physical Review E. 57 (1): R21–R24. Bibcode:1998PhRvE..57...21P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.57.R21.
  5. ^ Politano, Hélène; Pouquet, Annick (1998). "Dynamical length scales for turbulent magnetized flows". Geophysical Research Letters. 25 (3): 273–276. Bibcode:1998GeoRL..25..273P. doi:10.1029/97GL03642. ISSN 1944-8007. S2CID 121565391.
  6. ^ "Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d'Acoustique - UMR 5509 - Annick Pouquet Visiting LMFA". lmfa.ec-lyon.fr (in French). Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  7. ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae - Annick Pouquet". sites.google.com. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  8. ^ "Annick Pouquet | staff.ucar.edu". staff.ucar.edu. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  9. ^ "Emeritus/emerita staff | National Center for Atmospheric Research". ncar.ucar.edu. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  10. ^ "Annick Pouquet". Applied Mathematics. 24 September 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  11. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 30 November 2020.