Amélie Simon
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Postdoctoral research in
Physical Climatology and Oceanography
PhD in Fluid Dynamics
Professional Experience
August 2021 to May 2023
Postdoctoral researcher, Instituto Dom Luiz / Faculdade de Ciências / Universidade de Lisboa / (Lisboa, Portugal)
Role of ocean dynamics and ocean-atmosphere interactions in extreme event
Project involved: ROADMAP
Supervised by: Ana Russo and Ricardo Trigo
Other main collaborators: Markus Donat, Pierre-Amaël Auger, Guillaume Charria, Carlos Pires.
Marine heatwaves and cold spells, extreme events, climate change, satellite and in-situ data, non-linear statistics
October 2017 to August 2021
Postdoctoral researcher, LOCEAN-IPSL/ Sorbonne University/ CNRS (Paris, 75),
Impact of Sea-Ice melting on atmospheric and oceanic circulations with models and observations/reanalysis
Project involved: Blue-Action, Archange, Gotham, Roqbar
Supervised by: Guillaume Gastineau and Claude Frankignoul
Other main collaborators: Juliette Mignot, Alexey Fedorov, Ivana Cvijanovic, Rym Msadek, François Lott, J-B. Sallée, Pablo Ortega
Climate science, Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice teleconnections, large-scale circulation, atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions
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January 2014 to January
2017
February to July 2013
Engineer internship , Ecome, (Suresnes, 92)
Modelling of a solar/geothermal coupling
Supervised by: Jean-Baptiste Bernard
Renewable energy, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, experimental, CFD
June to
August 2012
Scientific Education
Ph.D. Student, LMFA, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, (Ecully, 69), Department: Fluid Dynamics
January 2014 - January 2017
Engineer School/Master 2, National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), (Rouen, 76),
Department: fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfert, turbulence, statistics, research project
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September 2009 July 2013
Exchange program, Luleå Teckniska Universitet (LTU), (Sweden)
Department: Renewable energy, computational fluid dynamic (CFD), research project
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Baccalaureate with honours (Caen, 14)
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September 2009 July 2013
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2008
PhD student, LMFA, Ecole Centrale Lyon (Ecully, 69) and EDF R&D (Chatou, 92), France
Modelling and simulation for liquid films in steam turbines
Supervised by: Micel Lance, Jean-marc Hérard, Meryem Marcelet, Jean-marc Dorey, Mugurel Stanciu
Fluid dynamics, Shallow-Water equations, stability analysis, hyperbolicity, numerical scheme, propagation of waves at free surface
Research internship , EDF R&D, (Chatou, 78),
Production of droplets with a Ranque tube
Supervised by: Jean-marc Dorey
Thermodynamics, Fluid dynamics, condensation, experimental, CFD.
Postdoctoral researcher, IMT-Atlantique (Plouzané, France)
Abrupt change in the Arctic
Project involved: CLIMArcTIC
Supervised by: Pierre Tandeo and Florian Sévellec
Clustering, Machine Learning, Sea-ice
September 2023 to now
Experience at sea
February to April 2021
(2 months)
Shift work of the oceanographic cruise PIRATA-FR31 : Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic
Meteo-oceanographic buoys, ARGO profilers, SVP drifters, ADCP, deep CTD transects, XBT probes and water samples analyse
Chief Scientist: Bernard Bourlès,
Boat: N/O Thalassa.
June 2018 (2 weeks)
Shift leader (7 members team) of the oceanographic cruise MOOSE-GE :
Mediterranean Ocean Observing System for the Environment.
Deep CTD transects and water samples analyse
Chief Scientist: Laurent Coppola,
Boat: L’Atalante.
Open source script and simulation
Python Script 2022 Evaluate hot and cold marine extreme events physical importance through an activity metric which combines the occurrence, duration, intensity and spatial extend of extreme events
https://github.com/amelie-simon-pro/marine-extreme-event
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Simulation 2020 Official simulations of PAMIP (Polar Amplification Model Intercomparison project)
200 members of 14 months for each three sea-ice configurations (tier 2 in Smith et al., 2019)
with the coupled model IPSL-CM6A-LR
Reference here
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Simulation 2018 Arctic sea-ice sensitivity experiments with two approaches
10 members of 30 years with the coupled model IPSL-CM5
Reference here
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Code 2016 Represent liquid film on blades of steam turbine
Implemented in a free module of the code EDF Code Saturne
Shallow-Water equation with additional effect : mass transfer, droplet impact,
shearing at the free surface, surface tension, pressure gradient and the rotation
2D code for unstructured mesh using finite volume written in Fortran 77 and C
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Supervision and Peer-Review
Edition 2022 to now Co-editor of the Special issue on sea ice - ocean interactions hosted by Frontiers in Marine Science (Link here)
Peer-review 2016 to now Reviewer for scientific journals:
Nature Communication,
NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science,
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters,
SAGE journals: Special issue on wet steam
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March to August 2020
Co-supervisor, Master 2 student internship : Melania Van Hove
Influence of Antarctic sea ice on the atmosphere with observation and model.
Supervision
Grant and Award
Grant
Award
Grant
Grant
Award
AAP-IPSL 2020, 12 k€, maximum grant
ANR under the "Investissements d'avenir" programme with the reference ANR-11-IDEX-0004 - 17-EURE-0006
for the proposal “ROQBAR : Role of the Quasi-biennial oscillation in the climate response of the Arctic-sea ice melting”,
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First prize for the proposal on “Impact of Arctic warming on south-east Asia climate
variability on seasonal to interannual timescales”in the summer school ARCPATH-CONNECTED
“Climate Teleconnections and Predictions: Past, Present and Future”, 30 June - 6 July, 2018 Northeimsund, Norway
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Early career scientist travel funding to attend an Arctic System Change Workshop, April 9-12, 2018, NCAR, Boulder, USA
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ERASMUS to spend one semester in the university of Lulea, Sweden. Aug.-Dec. 2012
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First Prize for the ”scientific and technical vocation for girls”, with the project to become a researcher in physics
delivered by the french Ministry of solidarity and social cohesion. May 2008, Caen, France
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