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Curriculum Vitae

Professional positions:

  • 2022 -           : Assistant professor, LAboratoire de Modélisation Pluridisciplinaire et Simulations Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan (France)

  • 2021 - 2022 : Postdoctoral researcher, Relations between interaction potential and structure in liquids, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier (France), group of Ludovic Berthier

  • 2018 - 2021 : Postdoctoral researcher, Rheology of granular liquids, Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Köln (Germany), group of Matthias Sperl

  • 2015 - 2018 :  PhD thesis, Fluctuations in the flat phase of crystalline membranes, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, Sorbonne Université (Paris), under the supervision of Dominique Mouhanna

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Professional responsibilities:

  • 2025 -           : Vice-president of the LAboratoire de Modélisation Pluridisciplinaire et Simulations, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan (France)

  • ​2024 -          : Referee for the Agence Nationale de la Recherche

  • Participation to the supervision of the master's thesis of Natawan Gadjisade (2019) and Davide Paolino (2025).

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Scientific prodiction:

(Direct links to the publications listed below are available through my arXiv and Google Scholar pages accessible through the Contact page of this website.)

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  • Books: Introduction to the thermodynamics of pure substances, together with Olivier Henri-Rousseau, Adina Velcescu and Paul Blaise, accepted by Word Scientific.

 

  • Preprints: 

  1. The power spectrum of compressible turbulence: A story in symmetries, O Coquand - arXiv:2509.12103, (2025) (accepted in Symmetry)

  2.  Energy Cascades in Driven Granular Liquids: A new Universality Class? I: Model and Symmetries, O Coquand - arXiv:2504.12166, (2025)

  3.  Refractive properties of graphene in a medium-strong external magnetic field,  O Coquand, B Machet - arXiv:1410.6585, (2014)

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  • Publications in peer-reviewed journals:

  1. The liquid-gas transition in granular matter: A question of effective friction?, O Coquand - Journal of Rheology, (2025)

  2. OPTICO-ELECTRICAL PHENOMENON _ ELECTRO-OPTICAL PHENOMENON-TRANSITION, OBSERVED IN n (p)-TYPE DEGENERATE “COMPENSATED” GaP (1-x) As (x)-CRYSTALLINE ALLOYS (10), VC Huynh, O Coquand - World Journal of Engineering Research and Technology, (2025)

  3. Granular rheology: A tale of three time scales, O Coquand, WT Kranz, M Sperl - Physical Review E, (2025)

  4. Dynamical yield criterion for granular matter from first principles, O Coquand, M Sperl - Physical Review E, (2024)

  5. Understanding dense granular flow from first principles, WT Kranz, O Coquand, O D'angelo - Science Talks, (2022)

  6. Rheology of granular liquids in extensional flows: Beyond the mu(I)-law, O Coquand, M Sperl - Physical Review E, (2021)

  7. Wrinkling transition in quenched disordered membranes at two loops, O Coquand, D Mouhanna - Physical Review E, (2021)

  8. Integration through transients approach to the mu(I) rheology, O Coquand, M Sperl, T Kranz - Physical Review E, (2020)

  9. Flat phase of polymerized membranes at two-loop order, O Coquand, D Mouhanna, S Teber - Physical Review E, (2020)

  10. Universal behaviors in the wrinkling transition of disordered membranes, O Coquand, K Essafi, JP Kownacki, D Mouhanna - Physical Review E, (2020)

  11. Temperature expansions in the square-shoulder fluid. II. Thermodynamics, O Coquand, M Sperl - The Journal of Chemical Physics, (2020)

  12. Temperature expansions in the square-shoulder fluid. I. The Wiener–Hopf function, O Coquand, M Sperl - The Journal of Chemical Physics, (2020)

  13. Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the flat phase of crystalline membranes, O Coquand - Physical Review B, (2019)

  14. Glassy phase in quenched disordered crystalline membranes,  O Coquand, K Essafi, JP Kownacki, D Mouhanna - Physical Review E, (2018)

  15. Flat phase of quantum polymerized membranes, O Coquand, D Mouhanna - Physical Review E, (2016)

 

  • Other:

  1. Fluctuations dans la phase plate des membranes cristallines, (PhD manuscript in French), O Coquand - (2018)

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Participation to seminars:

  • Bridges over turbulent matters, Navigating across observations, concepts and models, seminar: Spontaneous stochasticity in the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation, together with Ciro Campolina, Long Li, Matteo Massaro and Éric Simonet, Institut d’Études scientifiques de Cargèse , Corsica (France), October 31st 2025

  • Bridges over turbulent matters, Navigating across observations, concepts and models, seminar: Universality classes in the scaling laws of compressible turbulence, Institut d’Études scientifiques de Cargèse , Corsica (France), October 29th 2025

  • Classical and quantum complexity in statistical mechanics, poster: A new method to solve the inverse problem in dense systems, Molveno (Italy), 21-25 July 2025

  • Science – beyond borders and disciplines, Transdisciplinary approaches to complex systems, Complexity in Mathematics, physics, mechanics, automation, seminar: A renormalisation group approach to turbulence and related problems, June 19th 2025, Craiova (Romania)

  • New Challenges in Turbulence Research VII, poster: Energy cascades in driven granular liquids: A new universality class ?, Les Houches (France), 9-14 Februar 2025

  • Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation : new trends in theories and experiments 2024, poster: A new phase in disordered crystalline membranes, Les Houches (France), 15-26 April 2024

  • Simons Collaboration on Cracking the Glass Problem Annual Meeting 2022, New-York (United States), 10-11 March 2022

  • Simons Collaboration on Cracking the Glass Problem Annual Meeting 2021, Venice (Italy), 15-19 Novembre 2021

  • 2nd MASON-MICS workshop (Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification),
    seminar : Rheology of granular liquids and Suspensions from first principles, (online), May 28th 2021

  • 9th International Conference on the Exact Renormalization Group, ERG 2018, poster : A new phase in disordered crystalline membranes, Paris, 9-13 July 2018

  • Functional Renormalization - from quantum gravity and dark energy to ultracold atoms and condensed matter, Heidelberg (Germany), 7-10 March 2017

  • 8th International Conference on the Exact Renormalization Group, ERG 2016, seminar : Quantum fluctuations in polymerized membranes, Trieste (Italy), 19-23 Septembre 2016

 

Invited talks:

  • Departementul de fizicǎ, Universitatea din Craiova, June 20th 2025 (Craiova, Romania)

  • LAboratoire de Modélisation Pluridisciplinaire et Simulations, June 16th 2023 (Perpignan, France)

  • Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Théorique (LPCT), March 4th 2022 (Metz, France)

  • Laboratoire de Physique et Modélisation des Milieux Condensés (LPMMC), Novembre 24th 2021 (Grenoble, France)

  • Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), October 6th 2020 (Montpellier, France)

  • Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique (LIPhy), October 1st 2020 (Grenoble, France)

  • Laboratoire de Physique et Modélisation des Milieux Condensés (LPMMC), Novembre 6th 2019
    (Grenoble, France)

  • ​Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, March 21st 2018 (Köln, Germany)

Teaching activity:

  • 2025 -           : Functions of several variables, L1, practice sessions (13.5h/y), UPVD (France)

  • 2024 -           : Mathematical tools for physics 1, L1, practice sessions (13.5h/y), UPVD (France)

  • 2024 -           : Basics of analysis, L1, practice sessions (36h/y), UPVD (France)

  • 2023 -           : Mechanics, L1, practice sessions (18h/y), UPVD (France)

  • 2023 - 2025 : Mechanics, L1, lab sessions (12h/y), UPVD (France)

  • 2023 -           : Mathematical tools for physics 2, L1,  practice sessions (13.5h/y), UPVD (France)

  • 2023 - 2025 : Waves and vibrations, L2, lab sessions, (21h/y), UPVD (France)

  • 2024 -            : Linear algebra, L3, lecture (15h/y), practice sessions (30h/y), UPVD (France)

  • 2023 -            : Electromagnetic waves, L3, practice sessions (15h/y), UPVD (France)

  • 2024 - 2024 : Analytical mechanics, L3, lecture (15h), practice sessions (15h), UPVD (France)

  • 2023 -           : Support in mathematics and physics, L1, lectures/practice sessions, (16.5h/y), UPVD (France)

  • 2024 - 2024 : Statistical physics, L3, practice sessions, (15h), UPVD (France)

  • 2023 - 2023 : Statistical thermodynamics, L3, lecture (15h), practice sessions (15h), UPVD (France)

  • 2016 - 2017 : Concepts and methods in physics, L1, practice sessions (23h/y), oral examinations (15h/y), both standard group, and students with special needs, Sorbonne Université (Paris, France)

  • 2016 - 2017 : Electromagnetism and electrokinetics, L2, practice sessions (20h/y), oral examinations (15h/y), Sorbonne Université (Paris, France)

  • 2016 - 2017 : Mechanics, L1, oral examinations (26h/y), Sorbonne Université (Paris, France)

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Education:

  • 2014 - 2015 : Masters, ICFP, theoretical physics program, (with distictions), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, (Paris, France)​

  • 2012 - 2015 : Fonctionnaire stagiaire, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, (Cachan, France)

  • 2012 - 2013 : Batchelor program PHYTEM, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Cachan, France)

  • 2010 - 2012 : Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles, Lycée Pierre de Fermat (Toulouse, France)

  • 2009 - 2010 : Baccalauréat, (with distinctions), Lycée Lapérouse (Albi, France)

Other skills:

  • Languages: French (mother tongue), English (C1), German (B2), Dutch (B2), Russian (B1), Polish (B1), Slovak (B1), Hungarian (B1)

  • Programming: Python, Cython, C++, FORTRAN, Mathematica, bash

  • Other: Physical first aid, Psychological first aid

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