Cécile Münch-Alligné obtained an engineering degree from INPG (France) in 2002. She then obtained a grant from the CNRS and the CNES to start a Ph.D. thesis on large eddy simulations of compressible turbulent flows. She defended her doctoral degree in 2005 at the INPG. From 2006 to 2010, she worked as a Research Associate in the Laboratory of Hydraulics Machines at EPFL on ow numerical simulations in hydraulic turbines. Since 2010, she has been a Professor at HES-SO Valais/Wallis, School of Engineering in Sion, Switzerland. She is head of the hydroelectricity research team.