Personal information
| Date and place of birth | February 9, 1985 in Paris (France) |
| Nationality | French |
| Current position | Theoretical physicist, external collaborator with the Theory Department, CERN (Switzerland) |
Previous work experience
| 2019-2022 | Senior Research Fellow at the Theory Department, CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) |
| 2014-2019 | Senior postdoctoral researcher at ITP Tübingen, University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) |
| 2011-2014 | Postdoctoral researcher with a teaching duty at ITP Karlsruhe, KIT (Karlsruhe, Germany) |
| 2009-2011 | PhD candidate and teaching assistant at LPT Orsay and Paris-Sud 11 University (Orsay, France) |
| 2008-2009 | PhD candidate as a civil servant in training at LPT Orsay and Paris-Sud 11 University (Orsay, France) |
Education, fellowships, and awards
| Jun. 2018 | DAAD travel fellowship, 950 € |
| Oct. - Dec. 2017 | IAS Durham
COFUND Senior Research Fellowship £ 3000 + accommodation + travel expenses |
| 7 Oct. 2014 | Prize for the
best pedagogical talk Annual Workshop of the Kepler-Kolleg, Heiligkreuztal (Germany) |
| 8 Feb. 2012 | PhD in
theoretical particle physics, LPT Orsay and Paris-Sud 11
University (Orsay, France) (3-year PhD fellowship granted, ∼35.7 k€ / year) Date of defense: October 10th, 2011. Obtained with the highest distinction PhD advisor: Dr. Abdelhak Djouadi (LPT Orsay, CNRS and Paris-Sud 11 University) |
| 2008 | Master of
sciences in theoretical physics École Normale Supérieure and Paris 6 University (now Sorbonne University) (Paris, France) Obtained with the next-to highest distinction (15.6/20) |
| 2005-2009 | Civil
servant in training at École Normale Supérieure de
Cachan after having passed a highly competitive exam (4-year fellowship granted, ∼33.5 k€ / year, selection ratio ∼6%) |
Lab visits and trainings
| 2017 | Three-month stay at IPPP Durham,
Durham University (Durham, UK); Senior Research Fellowship (COFUND) awarded One-month stay at IFIRSE Theoretical Physics Group, ICISE (Quy Nhon, Vietnam) |
| 2009 | Three-month stay at CERN, Theory Department (Meyrin, Switzerland) |
| 2007 | Five-month
internship at SLAC, Theory Group (Menlo Park, USA) Supersymmetry and precision measurements at the ILC, supervisor: Pr. Dr. JoAnne Hewett |
Teaching activities
| 2014-2019 | 2h special
lecture on supersymmetry at high energy colliders (in
German), tutorial courses in quantum field theory (40 hrs), 1st year of Master's degree and in classical electromagnetism (35 hrs), 1st year of Bachelor's degree University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) |
| 2012-2013 | Tutorial
courses in quantum field theory in German (10 hrs) 1st year of Master's degree, KIT (Karlsruhe, Germany) |
| 2009-2011 | Teaching assistant, tutorial and laboratory courses in classical dynamics and electrodynamics (136 hrs), 1st and 2nd years of Bachelor's degree, Paris-Sud 11 University (Orsay, France) |
| 2008-2009 | Teacher
assistant in Physics and Chemistry (one hour, twice a week) Advanced Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Classes in Lycée Henri 4 and Lycée Stanislas (Paris, France). Doing oral exams to prepare for the competitive entrance exams for French engineering schools |
| 2006-2007 | Physics and
Chemistry teacher during a one semester internship (two hours a
week) Last year of high school before the A-level exam in sciences, Lycée J-B Say (Paris, France) |
Supervision, organization, services
| Since 2020 | Nominated CERN representative at the European Committee for Future Accelerators, Early-Career Researcher Panel |
| Since 2014 | Referee for JHEP, EPJC, Nuclear Physics B, Reports on Progress in Physics, Quantum Information Processing, Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters, and Physics Letters B |
| 2014-2021 | Co-supervisor of two successful PhD theses obtained with honors, University of Tübingen (Tübingen, German |
| 2013-2014 | Co-supervisor of a Master's thesis, organizer of the weekly lab seminar during the Summer Semester, KIT (Karlsruhe, Germany) |
| 2011-2012 | Supervision of students in a research seminar course, 3rd year of Bachelor's degree, KIT (Karlsruhe, Germany) |
| 2010-2011 | Elected representative at the French National Council for Research and Teaching (CNESER) |
Languages
| French | Native speaker |
| English | Fluent (European level C2) |
| German | Fluent (European level C2) |
| Italian | Spoken and read |
Computer skills
| Programming languages | Fortran, C/C++, Perl, Python |
| Operating systems | UNIX, Linux, MacOS/MacOS X, Windows |
| HEP Tools | Mathematica, FeynArts/FormCalc, HDecay, Pythia basics, Gnuplot, FORM |
| General programs | Emacs, LibreOffice, Microsoft Office, Inscape, Gimp |
Miscellaneous
| Sports | Hiking, alpinism and climbing, running,
occasionally soccer Member of the Swiss Alpine Club (CAS, Geneva Section) |
| Instrument | Has been playing classical guitar for 30 years |
| First Aid | AFPS (French training for the basic steps in first aid) |
| Public Outreach | Various interviews for a general public online science magazine, official translation in French of the CERN Safety Report, various outreach talks |