Permanents
Frédéric Dubois
is graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Marseille in 1990. He received a PhD degree in mechanics from the University of Aix-Marseille 2 in 1994. He is now a CNRS research engineer in the Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil of Montpellier. His research activity mainly includes numerical modelling, numerical methods, and intensive computation of mechanical systems with contact, dynamics, fracture, multiple physics couplings. He manages the development of an open source software (LMGC90) devoted to the simulation of large collections of bodies in interaction with multiple physics couplings.
Jonathan Lambrechts
obtained his PhD “Finite element methods for coast flows: Application to the Great Barrier Reef” in the SLIM project at UCLouvain .
He is now working as research engineer for the Institute of Mechanics, Material and Civil Engineering in the same university. His research topics include mesh generation, finite element coastal ocean modeling and multiscale fluid-particle modeling.
Vincent Legat
is Full Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics in the Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain. His research topics include the development of mathematical models and numerical tools for predicting the behavior of complex materials and analysing their forming processes, computational rheology, fluid mechanics, modeling of polymeric solutions and melts, modeling of turbulent flows, computational geometry and design, numerical software engineering, non-linear finite element methods and formulations, error estimation and adaptive numerical methods, parallel computing.
Jean-François Remacle
After his Engineering Degree at the University of Liège in Belgium in 1992, Jean-François Remacle obtained in 1997 a Ph.D. from the same University. He then spent two years at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal as a post-doctoral fellow of Prof. F. Trochu, followed by three years at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the research team of Prof. M. Shephard (one year as research associate followed by two years as research assistant professor).
It was during his stay at Rensselaer that Pr. Remacle started to work closely with Mark Shephard on mesh generation. Pr. Shephard’s seminal work on mesh generation is one of the most important contributions ever. It was also during that stay that Pr. Remacle started the development of Gmsh, the open source mesh generator.
After these five years in Northern America, Jean-François Remacle joined the Université catholique de Louvain in 2002 as an assistant Professor. He then became Associate Professor in 2005 and Full Professor in 2012. In the following years of his return to Europe, Pr. Remacle dedicated a large part of his research to mesh generation.
Post-doctoral fellows
Michel Henry (2025 – Present)
graduated in mathematical engineering at UCLouvain in 2020 and pursued his PhD under the supervision of Prof. V. Legat and Dr. J. Lambrechts.
His topic focus on the numerical coupling between granular and fluid dynamics.
PhD Students
Simon Yans (2022 – Present)
graduated in mechanical Engineering at UCLouvain in 2022 and is currently pursuing a PhD thesis under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Lambrechts and Prof. Vincent Legat.
James Gosselet (2025 – Present)
obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Sciences and a Master’s degree in Mathematical Sciences, with a thesis exploring the connections between hyperbolic geometry, topology, and numerical computing. After four years of teaching mathematics at the upper secondary level in several schools, he returned to academic research. He is currently pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Lambrechts and Prof. Vincent Legat. His research focuses on exploring the use of MigFlow to model and simulate lava flows.
Alumni
Matthieu Constant (2016 – 2020)
graduated in mathematical engineering at UCLouvain (Belgium) in 2016 and obtained a PhD under the supervision of Prof. V. Legat. His PhD thesis, funded by the F.R.S.-FNRS through a FRIA grant (29627518), consisted in developing an hybrid multiscale model for immersed granular flows on which is based the MigFlow Software.
Nathan Coppin (2018-2024)
graduated in physical engineering at UCLouvain in 2018 and obtained his PhD from the same university in 2023. His research focuses on the numerical simulation of immersed granular media, and more specifically on the effects of grain shape.