Institutional Affiliation:
Yves Gourinat was an aircraft composite structures engineer for 7 years at Aerospatiale-Aircraft (now Airbus SAS) then 10 years an associate professor at ENSICA in the field of Aerospace Dynamics & Human Spaceflight (with Soyuz-Mir training). In 2003, he founded the team of nonlinear dynamics & biodynamics at SUPAERO, University of Toulouse. Specialized in nonlinear dynamics, he has been implied in several R&D programs devoted to granular media, space instrumentation and planetary material modeling.