Élisabeth Guazzelli (born 17 January 1955) is a French experimental physicist whose research concerns

fluid mechanics Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases, and plasma (physics), plasmas) and the forces on them. Originally applied to water (hydromechanics), it found applications in a wide range of discipl ...

, suspensions of particles in liquids, and

particle-laden flow Particle-laden flows refers to a class of two-phase fluid flow, in which one of the phases is continuously connected (referred to as the continuous or carrier phase) and the other phase is made up of small, immiscible, and typically dilute particle ...

s. She is a director of research for the

French National Centre for Scientific Research The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 engi ...

(CNRS), affiliated with the Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes at the

University of Paris The University of Paris (), known Metonymy, metonymically as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution. Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated wit ...

. Currently, Guazzelli serves as the editor of the

Journal of Fluid Mechanics The ''Journal of Fluid Mechanics'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of fluid mechanics. It publishes original work on theoretical, computational, and experimental aspects of the subject. The journal is published by Cambridge Un ...

Rapid edited by

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ...

Education and career

Guazzelli was a student from 1974 to 1979 at the , while earning bachelor's and master's degrees in physics through

Paris-Sud University Paris-Sud University (), also known as the University of Paris — XI (or as the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, University of Paris before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, ...

in 1974 and 1979 respectively. She earned a doctorate of the third cycle in 1981 at Paris-Sud University under the supervision of , and a state doctorate in 1986 at the

University of Provence The University of Provence Aix-Marseille I () was a Public university, public research university mostly located in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. It was one of the three University of Aix-Marseille, Universities of Aix-Marseille and was part of t ...

under the supervision of R. Blanc. She joined CNRS in 1982, became a director of research in 1996, and in 2015 was promoted to exceptional-class director of research. She was deputy director of the Institut Universitaire des Systèmes Thermiques Industriels (IUSTI) at

Aix-Marseille University Aix-Marseille University (AMU; ; formally incorporated as ) is a Public university, public research university located in the Provence region of southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II of Anjou, List of rulers of Provence, Count of ...

from 2008 to 2011, and since 2012 has been rector of the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), a non-profit scientific organization based in

Udine Udine ( ; ; ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in northeastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Carnic Alps. It is the capital of the Province of Udine, Regional decentralization entity ...

, Italy.

Book

Guazzelli is the coauthor with Jeffrey F. Morris of the book ''A Physical Introduction to Suspension Dynamics'' (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Recognition

Guazzelli is a member of the

Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti The Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (IVSLA) is an academy of sciences in Venice. History The Istituto Veneto was created as the Reale Istituto Nazionale, created by Napoleon for the Kingdom of Italy in 1810. The current name was g ...

. In 2008 she was elected a

Fellow of the American Physical Society The American Physical Society honors members with the designation ''Fellow'' for having made significant accomplishments to the field of physics. The following lists are divided chronologically by the year of designation. * List of fellows of the ...

(APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for extensive and careful experiments revealing complex phenomena in mobile particulate systems". In 2010 the European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH) named her as a Fluid Mechanics Fellow, with the same commendation. In 2021, Guazzelli was elected a

Member of the National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. It is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), along with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the N ...

, "for experiments and theory that enhance understanding of dispersed particulate systems". She was named a knight of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...

in 2012, and in the same year won the

Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet The Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet is a biennial prize awarded by the French Academy of Sciences in the fields of mathematics and physical sciences since 1954. Each recipient receives 3000 euros. The prize is also awarded quadrennially in biolo ...

of the

French Academy of Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (, ) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific method, scientific research. It was at the forefron ...

in the area of mechanical and computational sciences. She was the 2016 winner of the EUROMECH Fluid Mechanics Prize, "in recognition of her ground-breaking experiments on sedimenting suspensions, demonstrating the origin of particle fluctuations and cluster formation, for her decisive guidance of theory through focused experiments, and for her important contributions to the European mechanics community". She was awarded with the Fluid Dynamics Prize of the American Physical Society in 2023. She received the 2024 Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Research Prize.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guazzelli, Elisabeth Living people 20th-century French physicists French women physicists Fellows of the American Physical Society Knights of the Legion of Honour Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering 21st-century French physicists French experimental physicists French academic journal editors University of Provence alumni 1955 births 20th-century French women Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research