Staff Profile
Dr Celine Guervilly
Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7209
- Address: Office 2.01a Herschel Building
School of Mathematics & Statistics
缅北禁地
缅北禁地 upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Background
I am a senior lecturer in Applied Mathematics. My research area is the dynamics of planetary cores and the generation of planetary magnetic fields.
Previous positions
- NERC Independent Research Fellow, 缅北禁地, UK (2016-2021)
- Postdoc, University of Leeds, UK (2013-2015)
- Postdoc, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA (2011-2012)
Qualifications
- PhD in Geophysics, Université de Grenoble, France (2010). Thesis Title: “Numerical study of planetary dynamos generated by surface shear or internal heating”
- Master in Geophysics, Université de Grenoble, France (2007)
- Licence in Physics and Earth Sciences, Université de Rennes I, France (2005)
Memberships
- Member of the NERC Peer Review College
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Fellow of Advance HE (D2)
Research
I work on the fluid dynamics of planetary cores and their dynamo action using computational modelling.
Research Interests
- Geophysical fluid dynamics
- Magnetohydrodynamics
- Dynamo theory
- Rotating convection
- Double-diffusive convection
- Planetary dynamos
- Deep Earth Interior
Postgraduate supervision
- Robert Cooper (PhD, 2017-2021)
- Stephen Mason (PhD, 2018-2022)
- Martin Gray (started 2023)
- Rose Hinz (started 2023)
- Tom Shotton (started 2025)
Postdoctoral supervision
- Yue-Kin Tsang (started 2022)
Research grants
- NERC Independent Research Fellowship (PI), "A new model of the geodynamo: large-scale vortices in the Earth's core", 2016-2021, value: £432,973 ()
- STFC Consolidated grant (PI), "Double-diffusive convection in planetary cores and implications for observable magnetic fields", 2022-2025, value: £363,506 ()
- STFC Solar and planetary small award (Project lead) "The magnetic signature of double-diffusive convection in planets", 2025-2028, value: £407,824 ()
Teaching
Undergraduate teaching (2025/26)
- ENG1001 Engineering Mathematics I
- MSP2803 Fluid Dynamics I
Publications
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Articles
- Guervilly C, Dormy E. . Geophysical Research Letters 2025, 52(7), e2024GL111593.
- Mason SJ, Guervilly C, Sarson GR. . Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 2022, 116(5-6), 458-498.
- Guervilly C. . Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 2022, 127(11), e2022JE007350.
- Korre L, Brummell NH, Garaud P, Guervilly C. . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2021, 503(1), 362-375.
- Cooper RG, Bushby PJ, Guervilly C. . Physical Review Fluids 2020, 5, 113702.
- Guervilly C, Cardin P, Schaeffer N. . Nature 2019, 570, 368-371.
- Favier B, Guervilly C, Knobloch E. . Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2019, 864, R1.
- Bushby PJ, Käpylä PJ, Masada Y, Brandenburg A, Favier B, Guervilly C, Käpylä MJ. . Astronomy and Astrophysics 2018, 612, A97.
- Guervilly C, Cardin P. . Geophysical Journal International 2017, 211(1), 455-471.
- Guervilly C, Hughes DW, Jones CA. . Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2017, 815, 333-360.
- Guervilly C, Hughes DW. . Physical Review Fluids 2017, 2, 113503.
- Guervilly C, Cardin P. . Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2016, 808, 61-89.
- Guervilly C, Hughes DW, Jones CA. . Physical Review E 2015, 91(4), 041001.
- Guervilly C, Hughes DW, Jones CA. . Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2014, 758, 407-435.
- Guervilly C, Wood TS, Brummell NH. . Physical Review E 2013, 88(5), 053010.
- Guervilly C, Brummell NH. . Physical Review E 2012, 86, 046317.
- Guervilly C, Cardin P, Schaeffer N. . Icarus 2012, 218(1), 100-114.
- Guervilly C, Cardin P. . Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 2010, 104(2-3), 221-248.
- Garaud P, Guervilly C. . The Astrophysical Journal 2009, 695(2), 799-808.
- Nicollin F, Gibert D, Bossart P, Nussbaum C, Guervilly C. . Geophysical Journal International 2008, 172(1), 226-239.