Annuaire

I obtained my PhD in 2019 at the University of Nottingham (UK), in the group of Prof. Silke Weinfurtner, working on mimicking theoretically and experimentally black hole effects using an hydrodynamical analogue. During my PhD, I notably made the first observation of two fundamental phenomena: superradiance and QNM emission.

After a short postdoc with Dr. Sam Dolan in the Gravitation and Cosmology Group at the University of Sheffield in 2020, where I worked on nonlinear fields in curved spacetime, I joined in 2021 the King’s College of London and the Quantum Simulator for Fundamental Physics consortium, a UK based consortium on analogue simulators.

In 2022, I joined the Laboratoire de Mécanique et d’Acoustique, working with Dr. Antonin Coutant, where I worked on phononic metamaterials before getting a position as a postdoctoral researcher in 2024 at the ICB to work on experimental and theoretical optical turbulence.

I joined the CNRS as a full-time researcher in 2025 and I am now part of the SAFIR team in the photonics department at the ICB lab. My research focuses on the application of quasinormal mode theory to optical waveguide and the possibility to use nonlinear optics to investigate fundamental black hole effects.

2025

• J. Garnier, A. Picozzi and T. Torres.
“Stochastic dynamics of incoherent branched flows”,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 223803 (2025), arXiv:2502.07028 [math.AP].

2024

• K. Baudin, J. Garnier, A. Fusaro, L. Zanaglia, T. Torres, B. Kibler, V.Doya, C. Michel, G. Millot, A.
Picozzi.
“Thermalisation et condensation d’ondes optiques se propageant dans une fibre optique multimode”,
Actes du colloque “Chaleur, énergie, thermodynamique – Le message de Carnot aujourd’hui… 200 ans après” aux Editions Universitaires de Dijon (2024).

• S. Patrick and T. Torres.
“A primer on the analogue black hole bomb with capillary-gravity waves”,
Phys. Rev. D 110, 124068 (2024), arXiv:2406.05910 [gr-qc].

• T. Torres, C. Bellis, R. Cottereau and A. Coutant.
“Canonical scattering problem in topological metamaterials: Valley-Hall modes through bends”,
Proc. R. Soc. A 480:20230905 (2024), arXiv:2312.04396 [cond-mat.mes-hall].

2023

• C. Burgess, S. Patrick, T. Torres, R. Gregory and F. Koenig.
“Quasinormal Modes of Optical Solitons”,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 053802 (2023), arXiv:2309.10622 [physics.optics].

• T. Torres.
“From black hole spectral instability to stable observables”,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111401 (2023), arXiv:2304.10252 [gr-qc].

• L. Hamaide and T. Torres.
“Black hole information content of gravitational waves”,
Class. Quantum Grav. 40(8) 085018 (2023), arXiv:2211.13736 [gr-qc].

• T. Torres, M. Ould El Hadj, S. Hu and R. Gregory.
“Regge pole description of scattering by dirty black hole”,
Phys. Rev. D 107, 064028 (2023), arXiv:2211.17147 [gr-qc].

2022

• T. Torres, S. Patrick and R. Gregory.
“Imperfect draining vortex as analogue extreme compact object”,
Phys. Rev. D 106, 045026 (2022), arXiv :2204.10139 [gr-qc].

• T. Torres, O. M. Lloyd, S. Dolan and S. Weinfurtner.
“Wave focusing by submerged islands and gravitational analogues”,
Phys. Rev. Research 4, 033210 (2022), arXiv :2202.05926 [physics.flu-dyn].

• T. Torres, S. Dolan.
“Electromagnetic self-force on a charged particle on Kerr spacetime: equatorial circular orbits”,
Phys. Rev. D 106, 024024 (2022), arXiv :2008.12703 [gr-qc].

2021

• T. Torres.
“Hydrodynamic simulations of rotating black holes”, PhD Thesis.
arXiv :2111.02282 [gr-qc] (2021).

2020

• T. Torres.
“Estimate of the superradiance spectrum in dispersive media”,
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 378: 20190236 (2020), arXiv :2003.02230 [gr-qc].

2019

• T. Torres, S. Patrick, M. Richartz, and S. Weinfurtner.
“Analogue Black Hole Spectroscopy; or, how to listen to dumb holes”,
Class. Quantum Grav. 36(19) 194002 (2019), arXiv :1905.00356 [gr-qc].

• T. Torres, S. Patrick, M. Richartz, and S. Weinfurtner.
“Quasinormal Mode Oscillations in an Analogue Black Hole Experiment”,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 011301 (2019), arXiv :1811.07858 [gr-qc].

• Z. Fifer, T. Torres, S. Erne, A. Avgoustidis, R. J. A. Hill, and S. Weinfurtner.
“Analog cosmology with two-fluid systems in a strong gradient magnetic field”,
Phys. Rev. E 99, 0311010(R) (2019), arXiv :1801.05843 [gr-qc].

2017

• T. Torres, A. Coutant, S. Dolan, and S. Weinfurtner.
“Waves on a vortex: rays, rings and resonances”,
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 857, 291-311 (2017) arXiv :1712.04675 [gr-qc].

• T. Torres, S. Patrick, A. Coutant, M. Richartz, E. Tedford, and S. Weinfurtner.
“Observation of superradiance in a vortex flow”,
Nature Phys. 13, 833 (2017), arXiv :1612.06180 [gr-qc].