Dr Thibault Congy

Assistant Professor

School: Engineering, Physics and Mathematics

I obtained a PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2017 from the university of Paris-Saclay. Under the supervision of Prof. N. Pavloff, I investigated in my thesis nonlinear waves in Bose-Einstein condensates.
I then moved to Loughborough for a postdoc at the Mathematical Sciences department. I joined Northumbria University as a Research Fellow in 2018 and became a Lecturer in 2020.

My research is devoted dispersive hydrodynamics, a domain of Applied Mathematics and Physics concerned with fluid or fluid-like motion in which dissipation, e.g. viscosity, is negligible relative to wave dispersion.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Dispersive hydrodynamics; Soliton; Bose-Einstein condensate

Key Publications

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Exactly Solvable Model of Wave-Mean Field Interaction in Integrable Turbulence, Congy, T., El, G., Hoefer, M. 10 Apr 2026, In: Physical Review Letters
Dissipation-Driven Emergence of a Soliton Condensate in a Nonlinear Electrical Transmission Line, Fache, L., Damart, H., Copie, F., Bonnemain, T., Congy, T., Roberti, G., Suret, P., El, G., Randoux, S. 7 Apr 2025, In: Physical Review Letters
Riemann problem for polychromatic soliton gases: A testbed for the spectral kinetic theory, Congy, T., Carr, H., Roberti, G., El, G. 1 Apr 2025, In: Wave Motion
Solitary wave-mean flow interaction in strongly nonlinear dispersive shallow water waves, Congy, T., El, G., Gavrilyuk, S., Hoefer, M., Shyue, K. 8 Aug 2025, In: Journal of Nonlinear Waves
Spontaneous modulational instability of elliptic periodic waves: The soliton condensate model, Agafontsev, D., Congy, T., El, G., Randoux, S., Roberti, G., Suret, P. 1 Dec 2025, In: Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
Topological pathways to two-dimensional quantum turbulence, Panico, R., Ciliberto, G., Martone, G., Congy, T., Ballarini, D., Lanotte, A., Pavloff, N. 11 Jun 2025, In: Physical Review Research
Statistics of Extreme Events in Integrable Turbulence, Congy, T., El, G., Roberti, G., Tovbis, A., Randoux, S., Suret, P. 17 May 2024, In: Physical Review Letters
Topological Constraints on the Dynamics of Vortex Formation in a Two-Dimensional Quantum Fluid, Congy, T., Azam, P., Kaiser, R., Pavloff, N. 19 Jan 2024, In: Physical Review Letters
Topological Pathways to Two-Dimensional Quantum Turbulence, Panico, R., Ciliberto, G., Martone, G., Congy, T., Ballarini, D., Lanotte, A., Pavloff, N. 18 Nov 2024
Dispersive hydrodynamics of soliton condensates for the Korteweg-de Vries equation, Congy, T., El, G., Roberti, G., Tovbis, A. 19 Sep 2023, In: Journal of Nonlinear Science

Current and Recent Projects

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Wave-mean field interaction in integrable turbulence, El, G. (Principal Investigator), Congy, T. (Co Investigator), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, 01/02/26 - 31/01/27, £76,876.00
Fuse Fibre Phase 3, El, G. (Principal Investigator), Congy, T. (Co Investigator), LumOptica Limited, 26/01/24 - 25/05/24, £28,000.00

PGR Supervision

Michael Armstrong ??Soliton Gas–Boundary Interactions in the Focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation? Start Date: 01/10/2023
Michael Armstrong Thermodynamics and kinetic theory for confined soliton gas Start Date: 01/10/2023 End Date: 17/10/2025

Qualifications

Physics PhD September 29 2017