Cédric Beaume

Applied Mathematician

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Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics

I am an Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics at the University of Leeds. I completed my PhD in Fluid Dynamics from the University of Toulouse and became a Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellow from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2012. I then held a research position in Physics at UC Berkeley (2012–2014) before obtaining my first faculty position in Computational Fluid Dynamics at Imperial College London in 2014. I joined the University of Leeds as an Applied Mathematician in 2016.

I am fascinated by a range of scientific problems and my research revolves around the use of dynamical systems theory and of sophisticated numerical methods to explain and control instabilities in fluids, such as transition to turbulence and the formation of patterns at the surface of dry lakes. I have also designed and am running a competition based on the optimization of Formula One strategies and have coded various machine-learning methods.

You might wonder how to pronounce my name. Here is how, together with some complementary explanations.

News

April 15, 2026

Hamza Liaquet's PhD thesis has just been approved. Congratulations, Dr. Liaquet!

December 22, 2025

Our paper, entitled Spatially localised doubly diffusive convection in an axisymmetric spherical shell, written together with P. Mannix, has been published in J. Fluid Mech.

April 10, 2025

Our paper, entitled Convectons in unbalanced natural doubly diffusive convection, written together with J. Tumelty and A. Rucklidge, has been published in Phys. Rev. Fluids.

January 24, 2025

Students, if you are planning to use AI in your studies or academic endeavors, please read this first.

April 10, 2024

My talk on pattern formation on dry salt lakes at the Isaac Newton Institute on 28 March 2024 was recorded.

January 1, 2024

I am now a Deputy Director of Research and Innovation for the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds.

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