Joceline Lega

Joceline Claude Lega is a French physicist and applied mathematician, interested in nonlinear dynamics. She is a professor in the departments of mathematics, applied mathematics, and epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Arizona,[1] and editor-in-chief of Physica D.[2]

Joceline Lega
NationalityFrench
Academic background
EducationÉcole Normale Supérieure,
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Alma materUniversity of Nice Sophia Antipolis
Academic work
DisciplinePhysics,
Applied mathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Arizona,
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Main interestsNonlinear dynamics

Education and career

After studying physics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris from 1984 to 1988, and earning licentiate and maîtrise degrees in physics through Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1985, Lega earned a diplôme d'études approfondies in 1986 and a doctorate in theoretical physics in 1989, both at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. Her dissertation was Topological defects associated with the breaking of time translation invariance.[1]

She joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in 1989, and came to Arizona (taking a leave from CNRS) in 1997. At Arizona, she was director of the Program in Integrated Science and the Institute for Mathematics & Education, and since 2016 coordinates the Postdoctoral Mentoring Program in mathematics.[1]

Recognition

Lega became a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2004.[1] In 2017 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[3]

Selected publications
  • Coullet, P.; Gil, L.; Lega, J. (April 1989), "Defect-mediated turbulence", Physical Review Letters, 62 (14): 1619–1622, Bibcode:1989PhRvL..62.1619C, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.62.1619, PMID 10039721
  • Coullet, P.; Lega, J.; Houchmanzadeh, B.; Lajzerowicz, J. (September 1990), "Breaking chirality in nonequilibrium systems", Physical Review Letters, 65 (11): 1352–1355, Bibcode:1990PhRvL..65.1352C, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.65.1352, PMID 10042242
  • Ciliberto, S.; Coullet, P.; Lega, J.; Pampaloni, E.; Perez-Garcia, C. (November 1990), "Defects in roll-hexagon competition" (PDF), Physical Review Letters, 65 (19): 2370–2373, Bibcode:1990PhRvL..65.2370C, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.65.2370, hdl:10171/2241, PMID 10042531
  • Lega, J.; Moloney, J. V.; Newell, A. C. (November 1994), "Swift-Hohenberg Equation for Lasers" (PDF), Physical Review Letters, 73 (22): 2978–2981, Bibcode:1994PhRvL..73.2978L, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.73.2978, PMID 10057251
  • Lega, J.; Passot, T. (March 2003), "Hydrodynamics of bacterial colonies: A model", Physical Review E, 67 (3): 031906, Bibcode:2003PhRvE..67c1906L, doi:10.1103/physreve.67.031906, PMID 12689100

References
  1. Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2017-11-20
  2. "Editorial board", Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, Elsevier, retrieved 2017-11-21
  3. 2017 Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-20
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