Dr Daphne Lemasquerier

Dr Daphne Lemasquerier

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 1647
Email
d.lemasquerier@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Biography

Prior to joining the University of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, Daphné Lemasquerier was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics (Austin, TX, USA). Before that, Daphné was a doctoral student at Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre (CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université, France).

Research areas

Dr Daphné Lemasquerier's research focuses on experimental, numerical and theoretical modelling of planetary flows. She is interested in gas giants atmospheric dynamics and its coupling with the deep interior, from zonal, east-west winds to large-scale midlatitude anticyclones and polar cyclones, to self-organization of rotating turbulent flows. She combines experiments in fluid mechanics using rotating water tanks with idealized numerical simulations and theoretical models to unravel physical processes underlying Jupiter's dynamics.

Dr Daphné Lemasquerier also uses global direct numerical simulations to model the dynamics of the oceans hidden beneath the ice crust of some of Jupiter and Saturn icy moons. She studies to what extent the convecting ocean can thermally and dynamically couple the rocky interior of these moons with their ice crust, and how this can help to interpret future observations from Europa Clipper and JUICE missions (NASA and ESA, respectively).

See her for more information.

PhD supervision

  • MadeleineÌýHeideman
  • Xintong IrisÌýLiang

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Le Bars, M. & Lemasquerier, D., 1 Jan 2026, In: Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 58, p. 301-329 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Lemasquerier, D., 8 Dec 2025, In: Physical Review Fluids. 10, 12, 36 p., 124802.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Boukaré, C.-É., Lemasquerier, D., Cowan, N. B., Samuel, H., Badro, J., Dang, L., Falco, A. & Charnoz, S., 29 Jul 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Astronomy. p. 1-12 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Read, P., Afanasyev, Y., Aurnou, J. & Lemasquerier, D., 20 Dec 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Comptes Rendus Physique. 25, S3, 51 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Lemasquerier, D., Bierson, C. & Soderlund, K., 14 Dec 2023, In: AGU Advances. 4, 6, 21 p., e2023AV000994.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Lemasquerier, D., Favier, B. & Le Bars, M., 15 Jan 2023, In: Icarus. 390, 26 p., 115292.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Sutherland, B. R., Ma, Y., Flynn, M. R., Frank, D., Linden, P. F., Lemasquerier, D., Le Bars, M., Pacary, C., Jamin, T., Dauxois, T. & Joubaud, S., 10 Oct 2021, In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 924, 34 p., A15.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Lemasquerier, D., Favier, B. & Le Bars, M., 10 Mar 2021, In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 910, 43 p., A18.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Lemasquerier, D., Favier, B. & Bars, M. L., 12 Nov 2020, In: Physical Review Fluids. 5, 11, 5 p., 110506.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Lemasquerier, D., Facchini, G., Favier, B. & Le Bars, M., 16 Mar 2020, In: Nature Physics. 16, 6, p. 695-700 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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