Alexandre Stegner

A.Stegner, is CNRS senior researcher and associate Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique (France). He gets a Master in Theoretical Physics in 1993 and a PhD in geophysical fluid dynamics in 1997 both at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (France). He was a post-doctoral fellow at Cambridge University and obtained a permanent research position at the CNRS in 1999. He his now at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD, IPSL) and his research is mainly focused on coastal oceanography using both theoretical, numerical and experimental approaches in addition to remote sensing data analysis. These last years he conducted several experimental projects and took part to four oceanic surveys in Antartica, the North-Atlantic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. He is currently the PI of the DYNED-Atlas project, which is focused on operational eddy detection and their 3D characterization from remote-sensing and in-situ data sets.