Employment

• 2024 - present : Research Director (Directeur de Recherche de Classe 2, DR2), Inria Branch at the University of Montpellier (France)

• 2023 - 2024 : Research Director (Directeur de Recherche de Classe 2, DR2), Inria Centre at Université Côte d'Azur (France)

• 2022 - 2023 : Associate Research Professor (Chargé de Recherche de Classe Normale, CRCN), Inria Centre at Université Côte d'Azur (France)

• 2018 - 2022 : Associate Research Professor (Chargé de Recherche de Classe Normale, CRCN), Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditeranée Research Centre (France)

• 2015 - 2018 : Associate Research Professor (Chargé de Recherche de classe 1, CR1), Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditeranée Research Centre (France)

• 2013 - 2015 : Associate Research Professor (Chargé de Recherche de classe 1, CR1), Inria Paris-Rocquencourt Research Centre (France)

• 2011 - 2013 : Assistant Research Professor (Chargé de Recherche de classe 2, CR2), Inria Paris-Rocquencourt Research Centre (France)

• 2009 - 2011 : Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Engineering Mathematics, Applied Nonlinear Mathematics group, University of Bristol (UK)

Habilitation in Mathematics (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France)

• Thesis : Complex oscillations with multiple timescales - Application to neuronal dynamics   
  Defence date: 11 December 2015
  Reviewers :
  - Prof. Eusebius J. Doedel (Concordia University, Montréal, Canada)
  - Prof. Christopher K. R. T. Jones (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
  - Prof. Daniel Panazzolo (Université de Haute Alsace, France)
  Jury :
  - Prof. Stephen Coombes (University of Nottingham, UK)
  - Prof. Peter De Maesschalck (Hasselt University, Belgium)
  - Prof. Olivier Faugeras (Inria Sophia Antipolis, France)
  - Prof. Jean-Pierre Françoise (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France)
  - Prof. Christopher K. R. T. Jones (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
  - Prof. Daniel Panazzolo (Université de Haute Alsace, France)

PhD in Applied Mathematics (University of Bristol, UK)

• Thesis : Numerical continuation methods for slow-fast dynamical systems
  Supervisors: Prof. Bernd Krauskopf and Prof. Hinke M. Osinga (now both at the University of Auckland, NZ)
  Defence date: 19 February 2009
  Examiners:
  - Prof. Alan R. Champneys (University of Bristol, UK, internal examiner)
  - Prof. Tasso J. Kaper (Boston University, USA, external examiner)

Education

• 2003 - 2004 : MSc (Hons) in Pure Mathematics, University Denis Diderot - Paris 7 (France)
  Thesis: The Birkhoff-Smale homoclinic theorem: applications in hamiltonian dynamics
  Supervisor: Prof. Jacques Féjoz

• 2003 : Agrégation externe de Mathématiques (competitive exam)

• 2000 - 2001 : MSc in Pure Mathematics, University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (France)
  Thesis: Smooth norms on certain C(K) spaces - study of a preprint by P. Hajek [published in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 2003]
  Supervisor: Prof. Gilles Godefroy

• 1996 - 2000 : Four-year degree (1st class Hons) in Pure Mathematics, University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (France)

PhD students supervision

• Current students:
  • Ruizheng Guo (2026-2029), co-supervised with Prof. Afia B Ali at University College London (UCL, UK) and Prof. Serafim Rodrigues at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM, Bilbao, Spain)

• Former students:
  • Guillaume Girier (2020-2024), co-supervised with Prof. Serafim Rodrigues at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM, Bilbao, Spain)
  • Jordi Penalva Vadell (2020-2024) [Thesis], co-supervised with Dr. Antonio E Teruel and Dr. Catalina Vich at the University of the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Spain)
  • Louisiane Lemaire (2018-2021) [Thesis], co-supervised with Prof. Martin Krupa at Université Côte d'Azur (Nice, France)
  • Halgurd Taher (2018-2021) [Thesis], co-supervised with Dr. Simona Olmi (CNR, Italy)

Postdoctoral researchers mentoring

• Current postdocs:
  • Rafael Cavalcanti (2026-2028)

• Former postdocs:
  • Louisiane Lemaire (2024-2026)
  • Mattia Sensi (2021-2023)
  • Emre Baspinar (2018-2021)
  • Elif Köksal-Ersöz (2017-2019)
  • Soledad Fernández-García (2013-2015)
  • Albert Granados (2012-2014)