Laurette Tuckerman

Short description: American mathematical physicist

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]

## Contents

* 1 Early life
* 2 Education
* 3 Career
* 4 Awards
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Early life

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

Tuckerman attended Wesleyan University and Princeton University and obtained a Ph.D in applied mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984.

## Career

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 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. She has also taught at Ecole Polytechnique and at École normale supérieure (Paris).

## Awards

In 2002, she was elected as fellow of the American Physical Society[2] and in 2018 she became a fellow of Euromech.[3]

## References

1. ↑ "ESPCI Paris : Directory". https://www.espci.fr/en/directory?recherche=tuckerman&r_en_cours=on&type=recherche&unique_id=CglMGTcGFSs=&lang=en.
2. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2002&unit_id=DFD&institution=.
3. ↑ "Fluid Mechanics Fellows". https://euromech.org/fellows/euromech-fellows-fluids.

## External links

* Home page
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