Alain Pumir, member of the MPG
At the 69th Annual Meeting of the Max Planck Society in Heidelberg, Professor Alain Pumir from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) was appointed as an external scientific member of the Göttingen Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS). With this award, MPIDS acknowledges the long-term intensive cooperation between the internationally renowned physicist and the departments of the institute. Alain Pumir is Research Director at CNRS and has been working at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, since 2008. Previously, he worked in Nice, France, from 1992 to 2000. Prof. Pumir has been collaborating for a long time with the Department of Fluid Physics, Pattern Formation and Biocomplexity directed by Prof. Eberhard Bodenschatz. After receiving the Humboldt Research Award, he spent longer periods at MPIDS since 2013. Alain Pumir shares many research interests with the Institute.



