Passionate about music, a jazz pianist and a composer in his leisure time, Tristan Gilet nonetheless turned to physical engineering studies at the University of Liège. He carried on his training at Toulouse, at Supaero - the National Higher Education College of Aeronautics and Space – whereof he picked up his pilot’s license – and at the MIT at Cambridge (Massachusetts). He is now a doctoral student at the University of Liège. His thesis is on the physics of liquid droplets.

Selection of publications

DORBOLO S., TERWAGNE D., VANDEWALLE N. and GILET T., Resonant and rolling droplets, New J. Phys., 10, 113021 (2008)

GILET T., TERWAGNE D., VANDEWALLE N. and DORBOLO S., Dynamics of a bouncing droplet onto a vertically vibrated interface, Phys. Rev. Lett., 100, 167802 (2008)

LUDEWIG F., DORBOLO S., GILET T. and VANDEWALLE N., Energetic approach for the characterization of tap in granular compaction, Europhys. Lett., 84, 44001 (2008)

GILET T., VANDEWALLE N. and DORBOLO S., Controlling the partial coalescence of a droplet on a vertically vibrated bath, Phys. Rev. E, 76, 035302(R) (2007)

GILET T., MULLENERS K., LECOMTE J.P., VANDEWALLE N. and DORBOLO S., Critical parameters for the partial coalescence of a droplet, Phys. Rev. E, 75, 036303 (2007)