title: Laurette Tuckerman
text: # Laurette Tuckerman
  
  Laurette Stephanie Tuckerman (born 1956) is a mathematical physicist working in the areas of hydrodynamic instability, bifurcation theory, and computational fluid dynamics. She is currently a director of research for the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, at the Physics and Mechanics of Heterogeneous Media Laboratory of ESPCI Paris.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Tuckerman was born in New York City in 1956. Her mother was a journalist for the Agence France Presse covering the United Nations who had left France during World War II, and her father was a New York City union negotiator and devoted amateur pianist. She attended Hunter College High School.
  
  ## Education
  
  Tuckerman attended Wesleyan University and Princeton University and obtained a Ph.D in applied mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984.
  
  ## Career
  
  Tuckerman first worked at the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre in France and then at University of Texas at Austin, where she was a postdoc at the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and then a faculty member in the department of mathematics. In 1994, she became a researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. She has also taught at Ecole Polytechnique and at École normale supérieure (Paris).
  
  ## Awards
  
  In 2002, she was elected as fellow of the American Physical Society and in 2018 she became a fellow of Euromech.
  
  