Pascale Garaud is a French astrophysicist and

applied mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History One ...

interested in

fluid dynamics In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids – liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including (the study of air and other gases in motion ...

magnetohydrodynamics In physics and engineering, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD; also called magneto-fluid dynamics or hydromagnetics) is a model of electrically conducting fluids that treats all interpenetrating particle species together as a single Continuum ...

, and their applications to astrophysics and geophysics. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of C ...

, and currently serves as the department chair. Garaud was a student at

Louis Pasteur University Louis Pasteur University (, ULP), also known as Strasbourg I, was a large university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. As of 15 January 2007, there were 18,847 students enrolled at the university, including around 3,000 foreign students. Researc ...

Strasbourg Strasbourg ( , ; ; ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est Regions of France, region of Geography of France, eastern France, in the historic region of Alsace. It is the prefecture of the Bas-Rhin Departmen ...

, and came to

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any ...

as a Knox Scholar to study for the

Mathematical Tripos The Mathematical Tripos is the mathematics course that is taught in the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Origin In its classical nineteenth-century form, the tripos was a di ...

. Remaining at Cambridge, Garaud earned her Ph.D. in 2001. Her dissertation, ''The dynamics of the solar tachocline'', was jointly supervised by Douglas Gough and Nigel Weiss. After postdoctoral research at Cambridge, she joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2004. At Santa Cruz, Garaud is a Fellow of Oakes College. She founded the Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics (formerly the International Summer Program for Modeling in Astrophysics), an annual meeting of graduate students and researchers, in 2010. In 2019, Garaud was elected a fellow of the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Garaud, Pascale Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American astrophysicists French astrophysicists 21st-century American mathematicians French mathematicians Alumni of the University of Cambridge University of California, Santa Cruz faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society