Welcome !

I am currently a project scientist hired by Telespazio Belgium S.R.L to work in the Science Utilisation Office of the Human and Robotic Exploration directorate of ESA. In practical terms, I help scientists who want to use ESA platforms (drop tower, sounding rockets, ISS) navigate through all the steps from initial proposal submission to the completion of the project.

My previous work

• I am on leave from my Chargé de Recherche (tenured researcher) position at Laboratoire Navier near Paris, a joint-venture between Université Gustave Eiffel (my primary affiliation), the CNRS and the ENPC. I still study the collective behaviour of bubbles and particles trapped in complex fluids, either at rest or under the influence of ultrasound.

• In 2024, I joined a 9-week full-time data science bootcamp with Le Wagon, and had fun coding reinforcement learning algorithms during our two-week project. I used the opportunity to re-write some of my old data processing codes to benefit from the power of Pytorch. You can have a look at my code projects in the Portfolio section of this website.

• Postdoc at TU Delft and Imperial College London (2018-2021) in the group of Valeria Garbin. We used ultrasound on single bubbles to study and disrupt the structure of complex fluids.

• Postdoc at the laboratoire de Physique de l’Ens de Lyon (2015-2018) with Sébastien Manneville and Thomas Gibaud, in a collaboration with the Laboratoire du Futur (U. Bordeaux & Solvay). We studied there how concentrated - and sometimes shear-thickening - suspensions flow combining insights from ultrasound echography and X radiography.

• Postdoc at IRPHÉ in Marseille (2013-2014), studying how colloidal suspensions self-organise during directional freezing, with Alain Pocheau, Marc Georgelin and Sylvain Deville.

• PhD student at SPEC, CEA Saclay (2010-2013), during which I researched the long-time, large-scale properties of a turbulent swirling von Karman flow in water. Under the supervision of François Daviaud and Bérengère Dubrulle.