Education
2008
Habilitation Thesis (defended on 7th Nov. 2017)
Sorbonne Universités-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 Universités-Université
Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC),
France
Thesis: 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 Universités-UPMC, rank: 1st/42
students
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 Research Scientist (since
October 2010), 1st Class (CR1) since October 2014
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, section 5), France
Lab. 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
2016 Mini-colloquium “X-ray spectroscopy of correlated oxides” at CMD26 (26th
Conference of the Condensed Matter Division, EPS),
5-9/09/2016, Groningen
(Netherlands).
2016 EWinS 2016: EUSPEC Winter School on core level spectroscopies 01/02-11/02/2016,
Ajdovscina (Slovenia) http://ewins2016.ijs.si/
2015 Satellite workshop to XAFS 16 conference “Application of XAFS to the study of magnetic materials”
30/08-2/09/2015
Stuttgart, (Germany).
Institutional responsibilities
2014 – Member of the Management Committee of the EUSPEC
COST network aimed at gathering activities in
theoretical spectroscopies.
Short Term Scientific Missions Manager (now Deputy), responsible for reviewing scientific
projects and allocating travel grants.
Responsible for the organization of
scientific schools. In charge of gender action issues.
Teaching activities
2011
– Teaching “Core level spectroscopies and Ligand
Field Multiplet Theory” in international
scientific schools and meetings
2011
– Teaching undergraduates and Master students “Core level
spectroscopies and Ligand Field Multiplet Theory”
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
Membership of scientific societies
2014 – Member of EUSPEC network
(Modern Tools for Spectroscopy on Advanced Materials)
2015 - Member of "Association Française des Utilisateurs de Rayonnement Synchrotron"
2008 – 2012 Member of “Société Française de Minéralogie
et de Cristallographie”
Other
2008 – Reviewer of scientific papers: Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. B, J. Phys.: Condens.
Matter, Am. Mineral., J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom.
2003 – 2007 Board
of Examiners for the joint entrance examination to the French “Grandes
Ecoles”
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