Ph.D., Mechanics, University of Paris VI, 2012 M.S., Chemical Engineering, Cambridge University, 2009 B.S., Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique, 2008 Honors and Awards APS Gallery of fluid motion, Milton van Dyke Award Winner, 2017 APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award Winners, 2015

My research is concerned with developing predictive models that rationalize the physics at play in problems arising in natural settings and model laboratory experiments. Through the elucidation of a variety of nature’s mechanisms, my group aims to inspire and inform the design of new technologies. Iteration between observation, analog experiment and theoretical modeling is a critical feature of my research, which is interdisciplinary by nature at the cusp of fluid mechanics, flexible solids mechanics, non-linear physics, biology and design.

J. Marthelot, L. Strong, P.M. Reis and P.-T. Brun. ”Designing soft materials with interfacial instabilities in liquid films”, Nature Commun., (2018) P.-T. Brun, Chikara Inamura, Daniel Lizardo, Giorgia Franchin, Michael Stern, Peter Houk, and Neri Oxman, ”The molten glass sewing machine” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A , 375 (2093), 20160156, (2017) A Lee, P.-T. Brun, J. Marthelot, G. Balestra, F. Gallaire and P. M. Reis ”Fabrication of slender elastic shells by the coating of curved surfaces”. Nature Communications, 7, (2016) P.-T. Brun, N. M. Ribe, B. Audoly and J. Lister ”A geometrical model for the viscous sewing machine” · Phys. Rev. Letters, 114 (17), 174501, (2015) P.-T. Brun, B. Audoly, N. M. Ribe, ”A numerical investigation of the fluid mechanical sewing machine”, Physics of Fluids 24 (4), 043102, (2012)