 Education
2017
Habilitation Thesis, defended on 7th Nov. 2017
Sorbonne Université - Université Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC), France
Title : Advanced magnetic core spectroscopies for the fine understanding for the electronic structure in materials
2008
PhD in Physics and Chemistry of Materials, with honours (defended on 24th Oct. 2008)
Sorbonne Université - Université Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC), France
Title: Electronic and structural properties of substitutional Cr3+ in crystals: an
experimental and theoretical study (Supervisor: Prof. Georges Calas)
2005 Master of
Science, with honours, major in Materials Sciences and Nano-Objets, Sorbonne Université-UPMC
2003 Agrégation in
Physics and Chemistry (highest competitive examination for teachers) École Normale Supérieure (Cachan), France
2002 Bachelor of
Science, with honours, major in Physical Chemistry - École Normale Supérieure (Cachan) and Université Paris Sud (Orsay), France
2000 Fellow of the École Normale Supérieure (Cachan)
Current position
2010
– Permanent CNRS Research Scientist: Research Director (senior scientist, DR2) since October 2021
National Center for Scientific Research (section 07 : Physics of Materials : structure and dynamics)
Institut de Minéralogie, Physique des Matériaux et Cosmochimie (IMPMC),
Paris
Previous positions
2008
– 2010 Post-doctoral Research Associate. Mentor: Prof. Frank de Groot
Inorganic Chemistry and
Catalysis, Debye Institute, Utrecht University (Netherlands)
2006 Visiting PhD student (Sept-Oct. 2006). Mentor: Prof. Nicola Marzari
Dept of Materials
Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Organisation of scientific meetings and schools
2022
– 2025 Co-organizer of the school "Ecole Rayonnement synchrotron pour l'étude des matériaux" of Sorbonne Université (France)
2026 Scientific commitee member of "XAFS50.FR : 50 years of XAFS in France", Saint-Aubin (France)
2026 Co-chair of the IUCr Mini Symposium "X-ray spectroscopy: high energy resolution methods", 27th Congress of the IUCr, Calgary (Canada)
2025 Journée "SOLEIL@SU" sponsored by Synchrotron SOLEIL and Sorbonne Université,
Paris (France)
2024 Co-organizer of mini-colloquium "New perspectives and complementarities for electron and X-ray spectroscopies", JMC 2024, Marseille (France)
2023 Co-chair of the MRS Fall Meeting Symposium "Resolving States of Matter in Space and Time by Coherent Soft X-Ray Scattering",
Boston (USA)
2023 Journée "SOLEIL@SU" sponsored by Synchrotron SOLEIL and Sorbonne Université,
Paris (France)
2018 Workshop "Hybrid materials and low-D systems with remarkable electronic and magnetic effects" sponsored by LabEx MATISSE and MiChem,
Paris (France)
2017 Workshop "Common problems and solutions in core and valence theoretical spectroscopies" sponsored by GDR REST and EUSPEC network,
Paris (France)
2016 Mini-colloquium “"X-ray spectroscopy of correlated oxides"” at CMD26 (26th
Conference of the Condensed Matter Division, EPS), Groningen
(Netherlands)
2016 EWinS 2016: EUSPEC Winter School on core level spectroscopies,
Ajdovscina (Slovenia)
2015 Satellite workshop to XAFS 16 conference “Application of XAFS to the study of magnetic materials” , Stuttgart (Germany)
Main responsibilities and activities of expertise
2025
– Member of Directing Board of iMAT (Institute of Material Science of Sorbonne Université)
2022
– Member of the Scientific Council of the French CRG beamlines
2019
– 2025 Responsible of MIMABADI group "Mineralogy and Magnetism with Low Dimensionality" at IMPMC (France)
2021
– 2025 Nominated member at the CoNRS section 05, board member
2021
– 2025 Expertise for GENCI national computational ressources
2017
– 2021 Elected Member at the Council of the Physics Faculty at Sorbonne Université
2019
– 2021 Vice-chair of the Synchrotron SOLEIL program committee PRC2
2017
– 2021 Member of Synchrotron SOLEIL program committee PRC2
2018
– 2021 Member of ESRF program committee C03
2014
– 2018 Member of the Management Committee of the EUSPEC
COST network, Short Term Scientific Missions Deputy Manager
Responsible for the organization of
scientific schools and gender action issues
Teaching activities
Since 15 years I have been regularly teaching core level spectroscopies, Density Functional Theory and Ligand
Field Multiplet Theory” in international
scientific schools and meetings, such as the European HERCULES school (since 2019), the Mittelwihr school on Magnetism and Synchrotron Radiation (2012, 2018), Quanty schools (2018, 2019, 2022, 2024), SOLEIL and ESRF User meetings, or CNRS national schools (ANF, FAME-PLUS).
I also teach an introduction to synchrotron radiation to undergraduates and Master students in the frame of the Sorbonne université school that I set up with Marie d'Angelo in 2022. ”
Teaching experiences before 2011 :
2005
– 2008 Teaching assistant – Inorganic Chemistry, UPMC– Spectroscopy for
geologists, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
2004
4 months volunteering in a NGO in Cambodia (Centre Kram Ngoy, Phnom
Penh) teaching Physics and French
2003
– 2007 Writing physics courses and marking papers for the French Distance
Learning Center
2003 – 2007 Tutor at Lycée Saint Louis
(Paris) and Lycée Joffre (Montpellier) to prepare students for
entrance examination to the French “Grandes Ecoles”
2000 – 2002 Coordinator
and volunteer of Voluntary Student Tutoring Scheme at the Ecole Normale
Supérieure de Cachan for disadvantaged school children
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