After the PCS master, I did my PhD thesis at the Laboratoire de Radio-Astronomie (LRA), under the supervision of E. Dormy and S. Fauve, on « the modelisation of the dynamo effect ». I then spent two years as a postdoc at the Princeton University (USA), where I mainly studied (experimentally and theoretically) instabilities occuring in astrophysical accretion discs around black holes and proto-stars. My research focuses on non-linear and statistical physics, mostly within the framework of fluid mechanics. In particular, my current research interests lie in the field of magnetohydrodynamics, i.e., the study of the dynamics of electrically conducting fluids. I combine laboratory experiments, theory and numerical simulations to study various phenomena such as flow instabilities, magnetic field generation, dynamical systems, chaos, pipe flows and turbulence. I am currently an Associate Professor at Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, in the Non-linear Physics group of the Laboratoire de Physique Statistique (LPS). For more informations on my research : http://www.phys.ens.fr/~gissinger/research.html