Pascale Garaud is a French astrophysicist and applied mathematician interested in fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and their applications to astrophysics and geophysics.
She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and currently serves as the department chair.
[1] Garaud was a student at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, and came to Trinity College, Cambridge as a Knox Scholar to study for the Mathematical Tripos.
Her dissertation, The dynamics of the solar tachocline, was jointly supervised by Douglas Gough and Nigel Weiss.
[3] After postdoctoral research at Cambridge, she joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2004.