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SYLVAIN BOUILLON
PHD RESEARCHER IN SEA ICE MODELING
Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Earth and Life Institute (ELI)
Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research (TECLIM)
www.climate.be/u/bouillon
[email protected]
+32 10 47 30 64
mobile: +32 473 56 07 55
Place Louis Pasteur, 3
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
OBJECTIVE
A scientific position in a geophysical research team where my expertise in sea ice modeling would be
needed
SUMMARY OF
QUALIFICATIONS
Specialist in dynamics for sea ice-ocean large scale models
RESEARCH
“Improving sea ice rheology for large scale ice-ocean models” ongoing PhD thesis in Physics
Solid competences in numerical methods
Extensive knowledge in oceanography, climatology and mechanics of geomaterials
Trained skill to produce, synthesize and present scientific results
Supervisors: Thierry Fichefet and Vincent Legat, Expected thesis submission for September 2012
EVP rheology in the ice-ocean model NEMO-LIM
www.climate.be/lim
Bouillon (2009), An Elastic-Viscous-Plastic Sea Ice Model formulated on Arakawa B and C Grids, Ocean Modelling
Viscous-Plastic rheology and Lagrangian method in the ice-ocean model SLIM
www.climate.be/slim
Bouillon (2010), 3 applications of the Finite Element Louvain-la-Neuve Sea Ice Model (FELIM) :
on the sphere, in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and with a moving grid, Belgian IPY Symposium Proceeding
Elasto-Brittle rheology in SLIM and in NEMO-LIM
2 papers in preparation
Collaborations with Morales Maqueda M. A. (POL, Liverpool), Madec G. (NOC, Southampton), Garric G. (MERCATOR,
Toulouse), Vancoppenolle M. (LOCEAN, Paris), Weiss J. (LGGE, Grenoble), Girard L. (UZH, Zurich)
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Physics (MSc), UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve
Lectures in oceanography and climatology
2007
Civil Engineer in Applied Mathematics, UCL, graduated with high honours
Master thesis on “Discontinuous finite element methods for sea ice dynamics”
2001-2006
6-months Erasmus Exchange, KTH, Stockholm
2005
TEACHING
Assistant for lectures in numerical methods, fluid physics and general physics
Advisor for 5 master thesis in engineering, physics and geography
2006-now
ADDITIONAL
SKILLS
Data Analysis and Statistics
RGPS Lagrangian and Gridded products
NCEP-NCAR and ECMWF (re)-analysis
QuickSCAT and SSMI sea ice drift
ACTIVITIES AND
INTERESTS
Cycling activism (Gracq association), debunking climate change deniers (www.climate.be/desintox),
outdoor recreation with family, gardening and renovating
Languages
French: Native
English: Fluent
Dutch: Moderate
Swedish: Basic
Informatics
Fortran, C++, Java
MPI, netCDF, BASH
MATLAB, Ferret, IDL, ParaView
Gmsh, AutoCAD
Published scientific articles (peer-reviewed)
2011
Girard L., S. Bouillon, J. Weiss, D. Amitrano, T. Fichefet and V. Legat (2011), A new modelling framework for sea ice mechanics based on
elasto-brittle rheology, Annals of Glaciology, 52(57), 123-132.
Lietaer O., Deleersnijder E., Fichefet T., Vancoppenolle M., Comblen R., Bouillon S., Legat V. (2011). The vertical age profile in sea ice :
theory and numerical results. Ocean Modelling, 40, 211-226.
2009
Bouillon, S., M. A. Morales Maqueda, V. Legat and T. Fichefet (2009). An Elastic-Viscous-Plastic Sea Ice Model formulated on Arakawa B
and C Grids, Ocean Modelling, 27, 174-184.
Girard, L., J. Weiss, J. M. Molines, B. Barnier and S. Bouillon (2009). Evaluation of high-resolution sea ice models on the basis of statistical
and scaling properties of Arctic sea ice drift and deformation, J. Geophys. Res., 114, C08015.
Vancoppenolle, M., T. Fichefet, H. Goosse, S. Bouillon, G. Madec and M.A. Morales Maqueda (2009a). Simulating the mass balance and
salinity of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. 1. Model description and validation, Ocean Modelling, 27, 33-53.
Other publications or reports
2010
Bouillon, S., O. Lietaer, T., Fichefet and V., Legat, 3 applications of the Finite Element Louvain-la-Neuve Sea Ice Model (FELIM) : on the
sphere, in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and with a moving grid, Belgian IPY Symposium Proceeding, Brussels, May 2010
Lietaer O., Deleersnijder E., Fichefet T., Vancoppenolle M., Comblen R., Bouillon S., Legat V. SLIM : A finite element, unstructured-mesh
model for simulating thermodynamic and dynamic sea-ice processes. Application : the sea-ice age. Belgian IPY Symposium Proceeding,
Brussels, May 2010.
2008
Vancoppenolle, M., T. Fichefet, H. Goosse, S. Bouillon, C. K. Beatty and M. A. Morales Maqueda (2008a). LIM3, an advanced sea-ice model
for climate simulation and operational oceanography. Mercator Newsletter, 28.
Garric, G., Verbrugge, N., Bouillon, S., Vancoppenolle, M. (2008) Preliminary assessment of sea ice in the global ¼° Mercator Ocean
forecasting system. Mercator Newsletter, 28.
2006
Bouillon, S. (2006). Finite element methods for sea-ice dynamics. Master thesis, Université catholique de Louvain.
PhD Thesis in Physics
“Improving sea ice rheology for large scale ice-ocean models”
Expected thesis submission for September 2012
Supervisors:
Pr. Thierry Fichefet
Pr. Vincent Legat
Université catholique de Louvain
Earth and Life Institute (ELI)
Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research (TECLIM)
Université catholique de Louvain
Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil engineering (IMMC)
Applied mechanics and mathematics (MEMA)
Place Louis Pasteur, 3
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Avenue Georges Lemaître, 4,
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
[email protected]
+32 10 47 32 95
http://www.climate.be/u/fichefet
[email protected]
+32 10 47 23 59
http://vincent.legat.eu
Attendance to Conferences, Workshops and Summer schools
2011
Microdice, November 2011, Grenoble, France, Competition between damage and healing processes in a finite element sea ice model (poster)
2010
Harmony on Ice workshop, MyOcean project, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, September 2010
IGS 2010 Sea Ice Symposium, June 2010, Tromsø, Norway, Applications of the finite element Louvain-la-Neuve Sea-Ice Model (FELIM) : on
the sphere, in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and with a moving grid (oral presentation)
IPY belgian symposium, May 2010, Brussels, 3 applications of the Finite Element Louvain-la-Neuve Sea Ice Model (FELIM) : on the sphere, in
the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and with a moving grid (poster)
2009
DAMOCLES, International Symposium The Arctic Climate System, its Present Status, Future Evolution and Potential Impacts, November
2009, Brussels.
IMUM2009, International Workshop on Unstructured Mesh Numerical Modelling of Coastal, Shelf & Ocean Flows, September 2009, Louvain-laNeuve, Belgium, A finite element method to solve sea ice dynamics (oral presentation)
MOCA09, July 2009, Montréal, Canada, Non-Newtonian Rheologies to Simulate Strain Localization in the Sea Ice Cover (poster)
2008
EGU, April 2008, Vienna, Austria, The Elastic-Viscous-Plastic Sea-Ice Model on Different Grid Types (poster)
40th Liège Colloquium – NATO ARW, May 5-10 2008, Liege, Belgium, The elastic-viscous-plastic sea ice model on different grid types (oral
presentation).
2007
EGU, April 2007, Vienna, Austria, Elastic-viscous-plastic rheology in the Louvain-la-Neuve sea-ice model: comparison of different spatial
discretizations and different grid types (poster) .
International Sea-Ice summer School, 2-13 July 2007, Svalbard, Norway, Introduction of the Elastic-viscous-plastic rheology in the
Louvain-la-Neuve ice model (LIM) (poster)
Seminars and scientific visits
A rheology for Arctic sea ice, December 2010, TECLIM seminar, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Modélisation de la dynamique de la glace de mer dans les modèles du climat, January 21st 2009, LGGE, Grenoble, France, 10 days of
collaborative work with J. Weiss and L. Girard.
Quelle dynamique de la banquise, November 17th 2008, Les midis de la Recherche en GCE, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
The elastic-viscous-plastic rheology on a C grid, June 16th 2008, NEMO Users meeting, Paris, France (oral).
2 weeks collaborating with M.A. Morales Maqueda at the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool, February 2008
Recent developments and perspectives of SLIM's sea-ice model, annual meeting of the SLIM group, October 5th 2007, Louvain-la-Neuve,
Belgium.
Une rhéologie élato-visco-plastique pour LIM comparaison de différentes discrétisations spatiales et de différents types de grille, April 24th
2007, ASTR seminar, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Une nouvelle rhéologie pour simuler la dynamique complexe de la banquise, November 11 2007, MECA seminar, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Assistant for 5 Master Thesis
Dubois Manouane, Rhéologie de la glace de mer, EPL, 2008.
Coppe Julien, Modélisation de la distribution de la taille des glaçons de la banquise, EPL, 2009.
Laschet Samuel, Origines des fortes diminutions de l’étendue estivale de la banquise arctique observées en 2005, 2007 et 2008, GEOG, 2010
Duval Pauline, Rhéologie de la glace de mer, EPL, 2010
Fischer Etienne, Développent d’une représentation simplifiée de la distribution de l'épaisseur de la glace de mer, EPL, 2011
Websites
www.climate.be/u/bouillon
www.climate.be/lim
www.climate.be/slim
www.climate.be/desintox