Laurette Tuckerman

Laurette Stephanie Tuckerman (born 1956) is a mathematical physicist working in the areas of hydrodynamic instability, bifurcation theory, and computational fluid dynamics. She is currently a director of research for the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, at the Physics and Mechanics of Heterogeneous Media Laboratory of ESPCI Paris.[1]

Education and career

Tuckerman was born in New York City in 1956, the older of two sisters, and grew up in Forest Hills, Queens. Her mother was a French refugee, and her father was a city union negotiator who had studied the piano in France; she learned both French and English as a child. She attended Hunter College High School, and left high school at age 16 to go to Wesleyan College. After a year there, dissatisfied with the limited options for studying science at Wesleyan, she transfered to Princeton University, where she studied mathematics and physics, majoring in mathematics.[2]

Tuckerman entered graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but left the program after a year and worked as a statistical programmer for Charles River Associates and the Harvard School of Public Health for a year and a half. She then returned to her graduate program,[2] and completed her PhD in 1984. Her dissertation, Formation of Taylor Vortices in Spherical Couette Flow, was supervised by Philip S. Marcus.[3]

She went to France for postdoctoral research on a Chateaubriand Fellowship, and then did a second postdoctorate at the University of Texas at Austin before being hired by the University of Texas as an assistant professor. Ten years after her postdoctoral visit to France she returned to the country with a permanent position.[2]

Awards

In 2002, she was elected as fellow of the American Physical Society.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "ESPCI Paris : Directory".
  2. 1 2 3 Choi, Jean (May 2013). "Laurette Tuckerman". Interviews of the Margaret MacVicar Memorial AMITA Oral History Project. Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA). Retrieved 2018-10-05.
  3. ↑ Laurette Tuckerman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive".
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