Staff Profile

I am a senior lecturer in Applied Mathematics. My research area is the dynamics of planetary cores and the generation of planetary magnetic fields. 

Previous positions

• NERC Independent Research Fellow, Newcastle University, UK (2016-2021)
• Postdoc, University of Leeds, UK (2013-2015)
• Postdoc, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA (2011-2012)

Qualifications

• PhD in Geophysics, Université de Grenoble, France (2010). Thesis Title: “Numerical study of planetary dynamos generated by surface shear or internal heating”
• Master in Geophysics, Université de Grenoble, France (2007)
• Licence in Physics and Earth Sciences, Université de Rennes I, France (2005)

Memberships

• Member of the NERC Peer Review College
• Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Fellow of Advance HE (D2)

I work on the fluid dynamics of planetary cores and their dynamo action using computational modelling. 

Research Interests

• Geophysical fluid dynamics
• Magnetohydrodynamics
• Dynamo theory
• Rotating convection
• Double-diffusive convection
• Planetary dynamos
• Deep Earth Interior

Postgraduate supervision

• Robert Cooper (PhD, 2017-2021)
• Stephen Mason (PhD, 2018-2022)
• Martin Gray (started 2023)
• Rose Hinz (started 2023)

Postdoctoral supervision

• Yue-Kin Tsang (started 2022)

Research grants

• NERC Independent Research Fellowship (PI), "A new model of the geodynamo: large-scale vortices in the Earth's core", 2016-2021, value: £432,973 (NE/M017893/1)
• STFC Consolidated grant (PI), "Double-diffusive convection in planetary cores and implications for observable magnetic fields", 2022-2025, value: £363,506 (ST/W001039/1)

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Undergraduate teaching (2024/25)

• MAS3805 Electromagnetism
• MAS2803/PHY2033 Fluid Dynamics I

• Articles

  • Mason SJ, Guervilly C, Sarson GR. Magnetoconvection in a rotating spherical shell in the presence of a uniform axial magnetic field. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 2022, 116(5-6), 458-498.
  • Guervilly C. Fingering convection in the stably stratified layers of planetary cores. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 2022, 127(11), e2022JE007350.
  • Korre L, Brummell NH, Garaud P, Guervilly C. On the dynamical interaction between overshooting convection and an underlying dipole magnetic field - I. The non-dynamo regime. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2021, 503(1), 362-375.
  • Cooper RG, Bushby PJ, Guervilly C. Subcritical dynamos in rapidly rotating planar convection. Physical Review Fluids 2020, 5, 113702.
  • Guervilly C, Cardin P, Schaeffer N. Turbulent convective length scale in planetary cores. Nature 2019, 570, 368-371.
  • Favier B, Guervilly C, Knobloch E. Subcritical turbulent condensate in rapidly rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2019, 864, R1.
  • Bushby PJ, Käpylä PJ, Masada Y, Brandenburg A, Favier B, Guervilly C, Käpylä MJ. Large-scale dynamos in rapidly rotating plane layer convection. Astronomy and Astrophysics 2018, 612, A97.
  • Guervilly C, Cardin P. Multiple zonal jets and convective heat transport barriers in a quasi-geostrophic model of planetary cores. Geophysical Journal International 2017, 211(1), 455-471.
  • Guervilly C, Hughes DW, Jones CA. Large-scale-vortex dynamos in planar rotating convection. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2017, 815, 333-360.
  • Guervilly C, Hughes DW. Jets and large-scale vortices in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection. Physical Review Fluids 2017, 2, 113503.
  • Guervilly C, Cardin P. Subcritical convection of liquid metals in a rotating sphere using a quasi-geostrophic model. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2016, 808, 61-89.
  • Guervilly C, Hughes DW, Jones CA. Generation of magnetic fields by large-scale vortices in rotating convection. Physical Review E 2015, 91(4), 041001.
  • Guervilly C, Hughes DW, Jones CA. Large-scale vortices in rapidly rotating Rayleigh Bénard convection. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2014, 758, 407-435.
  • Guervilly C, Wood TS, Brummell NH. Effect of metallic walls on dynamos generated by laminar boundary-driven flow in a spherical domain. Physical Review E 2013, 88(5), 053010.
  • Guervilly C, Brummell NH. Self-consistent simulations of a von Kármán type dynamo in a spherical domain with metallic walls. Physical Review E 2012, 86, 046317.
  • Guervilly C, Cardin P, Schaeffer N. A dynamo driven by zonal jets at the upper surface: Applications to giant planets. Icarus 2012, 218(1), 100-114.
  • Guervilly C, Cardin P. Numerical simulations of dynamos generated in spherical Couette flows. Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 2010, 104(2-3), 221-248.
  • Garaud P, Guervilly C. The rotation rate of the solar radiative zone. The Astrophysical Journal 2009, 695(2), 799-808.
  • Nicollin F, Gibert D, Bossart P, Nussbaum C, Guervilly C. Seismic tomography of the excavation damaged zone of the Gallery 04 in the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory. Geophysical Journal International 2008, 172(1), 226-239.