Full name: Valéry Gilles Edgard Rousseau
Place of birth: Soignies (Belgium)
Citizenship: Dual American/Belgian
Marital status: Married
Languages: French, English, Spanish (basics), German (basics), Dutch (basics)
Current position
Physics Professor at Xavier University New Orleans (Started August 2023).
Previous positions
From 2020 to 2022: Neuroscientist at LSU Health New Orleans.
From 2016 to 2018: Visiting assistant professor of Physics at Loyola University New Orleans, Louisiana (USA).
From 2015 to 2016: Visiting assistant professor of Physics at the College of Wooster, Ohio (USA).
From 2009 to 2015: Postdoc researcher at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (USA).
Supervisor: Mark Jarrell and Juana Moreno
From 2006 to 2009: Postdoc researcher at University of Leiden, Instituut-Lorentz (The Netherlands).
Supervisor: Peter J.H. Denteneer
From 2004 to 2006: Postdoc researcher at University of California, Davis (USA).
Supervisor: Richard T. Scalettar
From 2001 to 2004: PhD student at University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis (France)
Institut Non-Linéaire de Nice (Valbonne)
Title of thesis: “Study of bosonic and fermionic systems in low dimensions”
(Original title: “Étude de systèmes bosoniques et fermioniques dans les basses dimensions”)
Supervisor: George G. Batrouni
Professional accomplishments
December 2018: Interviewed by famous French journalist André Bercoff, regarding my scientific
analysis of the Mamoudou Gassama affair, an event
that happened on May, 26th, 2018, which was broadcast worldwide. The full interview is available here:
December 2017 – February 2018: Expert witness in a civil lawsuit. Nicolas Martinez v. Dante Cunningham and ABC
Insurance Company, Civil Action 16-14896, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana.
Teaching experience
At Xavier University
Fall 2023: General Physics I.
Spring 2024: General Physics II.
At Loyola University
Fall 2018: Introduction to Waves and Quantum Physics.
Fall 2018: General Chemistry.
Fall 2017: Introduction to Neural Networks & Applications.
Fall 2016 - 2018: Physics for Life Sciences I.
Fall 2016 - 2018: Classical Mechanics.
Spring 2017: Introduction to Physics and Engineering.
Spring 2017: Physics for Life Sciences II.
Spring 2017 - 2018: Electromagnetism.
Spring 2018: Introduction to Thermal Physics.
Summer 2018: Physics for Life Sciences I.
At the College of Wooster
Supervising senior students for their Independent Study (IS) projects.
July 2020 - July 2021, “Modeling CA1 pyramidal neurons”, PI: V. Rousseau (LSU Health New Orleans), 40,000 SUs to access QueenBee, LONI, funded by the Louisiana Board of Regents.
July 2013 - December 2014. “Simulations of Strongly Correlated Systems”, PI: Juana Moreno, Co-Pi: M. Jarrell, Z. Y. Meng, V. Rousseau, K.-M. Tam, H. Terletska, S. X. Yang (Louisiana State University), and D. Galanakis (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), 9,689,141 SUs to access Kraken and Darter, XSEDE, funded by the National Science Foundation.
July 2012 - June 2013. “Simulations of Strongly Correlated Systems”, PI: Juana Moreno, Co-Pi: K.-S. Chen, C. E. Ekuma, K. Hettiarachchilage, M. Jarrell, Z. Y. Meng, J. Moreno, A. Ngo, V. Rousseau, K.-M. Tam, H. Terletska, S. X. Yang, (Louisiana State University), Z. Bai, C.-C. Chang, R. Scalettar and A. Tomas (University of California, Davis, and D. Galanakis (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 7,515,107 SUs to access Kraken, XSEDE, funded by the National Science Foundation.
July 2011 - June 2012. “Simulations of Strongly Correlated Systems”, PI: Juana Moreno, Co-Pi: H. Fotso, M. Jarrell, S. Pathak, V. Rousseau, D. E. Sheehy, K.-M. Tam and S. Yang (Louisiana State University), Z. Bai, C.-C. Chang, S. Chiesa, R. Scalettar and Andres Tomas (University of California, Davis), K. Tomko (Ohio Supercomputer Center), D. Galanakis (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), and F. F. Assaad (Universität Würzburg, Germany); 10,028,000 SUs (service units) to access Kraken and 1,203,000 SUs in Trestles, both at the Teragrid, funded by the National Science Foundation.
January 2010 - June 2011. “Simulations of Strongly Correlated Systems”, PI: Juana Moreno, Co-Pi: P. Reis, P. Zhang, V. Rousseau, S. Su, Z. Xu, M. Jarrell, D. Sheehy, S. Chiesa, K. W. Mahmud, and R. Scalettar, 6 million SUs (service units) to access Kraken at the Teragrid, funded by the National Science Foundation.
Outreach activities
April 2011: NanoDays at Louisiana Arts and Science Museum. LA-SiGMA (Louisiana
Alliance for Simulation-Guided Materials Applications) faculty and graduate students from
Louisiana State University participated in the Baton Rouge area's NanoDays events. NanoDays
is a nationwide festival celebrating the science of ultra matter. LA-SiGMA faculty members
gave lectures and graduate students led demonstrations to 288 guests at the Louisiana Arts and
Science Museum.
November 2004: Mentor at Rio Linda Junior High School in Sacramento (California) for "economically disadvantaged children".
I was in a group of postdoc researchers from the University of California (Davis) who were invited to give a demonstration of
quantum levitation using high-temperature superconductors, under the supervision of Pr. Richard Scalettar.
September 2001: Instructor at the annual Science Festival in Nice (France).
Curriculum Vitae
This section is under construction.
