I'm Pierre Augier, a CNRS researcher working at LEGI (CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes).

My main research interests concern fluid dynamics and turbulence, mainly applied to geophysical flows. In my work, a combination of lab experiments, numerical calculations, theoratical derivations and data analysis are used in order to investigate instabilities and turbulence in stratified and rotating fluids.

I also work on how to program and calcul for science, in particular using Python and its ecosystem, and teaching about these subjects.

I'm the creator and maintainer of the FluidDyn project, which is not hosted on GitHub but on the alternative open-source foss.heptapod.net.

I'm a founding member of the Python CNRS working group and py-edu-fr.

I'm currently working on SPy, which is a variant of Python specifically designed to be statically compilable while retaining a lot of the “useful” dynamic parts of Python. I explain in this presentation why I think the Python community should invest on SPy.