Pr. Robert PELISSIER
Born in Chateauvieux (83-Var) France in 1938

CURRENT POSITION

· Professeur des Universités, Exceptionnal Class, Université de la Méditerranée section CNU n°60.
· Director of the Ecole Supérieure de Mécanique de Marseille (ESM2).

CURRENT THEMES OF INTEREST

· Cardiovascular Biomechanics
· Unsteady Flows in the vascular system singularities
· Stability and transition to turbulence of physiological flows
· Centrifugal Unstabilities

NOTICEABLE ACTIVITES

· Founder of the Ecole Supérieure de Mécanique de Marseille. Recruitement on Concours Communs Polytechniques.

· Initiator and Head of the D.E.A. (National Diploma of Extensive Study) of Mechanics until 1998 at the Université d'Aix-Marseille II

· Initiator of the National D.E.A. of Biomechanics, local Head of the D.E.A. at the Université d'Aix-Marseille II

· Head until 1990 of the Master of Mechanics at the Université d'Aix-Marseille II

· President of the Specilaists Commission at the Université de la Méditerranée, sections 60, 61, 62.

TRAINING

· 1972 : Thèse de Doctorat d'Etat Es-Sciences (Fluids Mechanics) " Pseudo-periodical Motion of a liquid column - Criterias of transition " Mention Highly Honorable.

· 1964 : Thèse de Doctorat de 3ème cycle (eq. Ph-D) (Aerodynamics) : "Contribution to the study of the penetration in a uniform air flow of a jet normal to the current direction" Mention Highly Honorable.

PUBLICATIONS

· Pascal Moussellard A., Pélissier R. Starting process effect in unsteady flows. En cours de soumission à Physics of Fluids.

· Siouffi M., Deplano V., Pélissier R. Experimental Analysis of Unsteady Flows Through a Stenosis. Journal of Biomechanics Vol. 31, 11-19, 1998.

· Clarion, C., Pélissier R., A theoretical and experimental study of the velocity distribution and transition to turbulence in free oscillatory flow. J. Fluid. Mech., 70, 59-79, 1975.

PROFESSIONAL ADDRESS

ESM2 Technopôle de Château Gombert
13451 Marseille cedex 20 France

Téléphone 33 (4) 91 05 43 37
Fax 33 (4) 91 05 45 98
E-mail : pelissier@esm2.imt-mrs.fr