Sébastien Candel
Sébastien Candel is a French physicist, Emeritus Professor of École Centrale Paris, and the current President of the French Academy of Sciences.Education
Candel studied plasma physics at the École Centrale Paris, where he graduated with a master's degree in engineering science and DEA in 1968. He subsequently received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology under the supervision of the famous aeronautical scientist Frank E. Marble and Pierre and Marie Curie University, in 1972 and 1977 respectively.
His areas of expertise include fluid mechanics, combustion, propulsion, acoustics and aeroacoustics, signal processing, and hypersonics.Positions
His academic contributions include:
- More than 190 peer-reviewed journals
- Sections for 40 books
- 200 scientific papers
- Author of Mécanique des fluides et Problèmes de mécanique des fluides
- Co-author of Turbulent mixing and Combustion.
Candel was also Vice President of the Combustion Institute from 1996 to 2002, and Associate Editor for Combustion and Flame from 2001 to 2008.Distinctions
- Graduate engineer of the École Centrale Paris
- Prix d'Aumale, French Academy of Sciences
- Knight, Officer, and Commander of the Palmes Académiques
- Silver Medal, CNRS
- Knight and Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Marcel Dassault Grand Prize, French Academy of Sciences
- Aeroacoustics Award, Council of European Aerospace Societies
- G. Edward Pendray Aerospace Literature Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- AIAA Fellow
- Fellow of Institute of Physics, UK
- Emeritus Member of AAAF
- Honorary Doctorate, Université libre de Bruxelles
- Officer of the National Order of Merit
- Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering, USA
- Silver medal of the Combustion Institute for an outstanding paper presented at the 32nd Symposium
- Zeldovich Gold Medal of the Combustion Institute for outstanding contributions to the theory of combustion
- Member of the Académie de l'Air et de l'Espace
- Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute of Technology
