News

  • CohPa welcomes a new student in the team!

    From the 1st of November 2025, Etienne Minnaert is an ERC CohPa PhD at CNRS!

  • The ERC CohPa team published an article

    Published in Physical Review Fluids with Denis Dumont as first author, the article entitled « Discontinuous shear thickening in dry granular materials induced by non-Coulombian friction » is available here. Discontinuous shear thickening (DST), extensively studied in dense suspensions, can also occur in dry granular materials when interparticle friction depends on contact force. Using discrete-element simulations, this…

  • CohPa welcomes the first PhD student of the team!

    From the 1st of October 2024, Maxime Lajeunesse has become the first PhD student of the ERC CohPa team at IUSTI!

  • Olivier Pouliquen received the Weissenberg Award!

    At the Annual European Rheology Conference 2024 organized in April in Leeds, Olivier Pouliquen received the Weissenberg Award. 

  • April’s arrivals: three new members in the team

    Welcome to the new faces of CohPa! After the recruitment of Francisco M. Rocha last year, Olivier Pouliquen recruited three new post-docs to work on the ERC. Denis Dumont and Vincent Bertin arrived on the 1st of April and Anjishnu Choudhury followed on the 15th of the same month.