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Career

2017 - now : associate member of International laboratory for Mirror Symmetry and Automorphic Forms National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia (русский)
2008 - 2015 : Member of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
2007: Habilitation à diriger les recherches from the University of Paris VI
2001 - 2003: On leave of absence at the Theory Division at CERN (Switzerland).
2000 - now: Permanent position as Ingénieur CEA at the Institut de Physique théorique of CEA-Saclay
1998 - 2000: Post-doctoral position at DAMTP, University of Cambridge (England).
1995 - 1998: Doctor in Theoretical Physics: PhD in theoretical physics on superstring theory at the Centre de physique théorique of the École polytechnique, under the direction of Constantin Bachas
1994 - 1995: Military service & Agrégation de mathématiques
June 1994: DEA Physique Théorique (École normale supérieure, Paris)
1991 - 1996: École normale supérieure of Paris, France
1986 - 1991: Lycée Albert Châtelet, Douai, France

2024: Honorable Mention in the Awards for Essays in Gravitation by the Gravity Research Foundation
2021 : Directeur de recherche CEA
2020 - 2021 : Scientific Associate CERN theory division
Scientific associate at Niels Bohr institute Copenhague
2015: French Government Oversea Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, UK
2015: Honorable Mention in the Awards for Essays in Gravitation by the Gravity Research Foundation
2013: Grand prix Mergier-Bourdeix de l’Académie des Sciences (French Academy of Sciences prize)
2009: Honorable Mention in the Awards for Essays in Gravitation by the Gravity Research Foundation
1998: Thesis price from the École polytechnique (France).

2024-2028: ANR grant Observables
2020-2023: ANR grant Symmetries and moduli spaces in algebraic geometry and physics
2018-2021: Collège Franco-Allemand with the University of Mainz
2017-2020: ANR grant New Structures in Amplitudes
2014-2017: Franco-Danish collaborative grant (PICS)
2012-2017: ANR grant Quantum properties of supersymmetric theories
2012-2015: Franco-Russian collaborative grant (PICS)
2010: Franco-Danish collaborative grant attributed by the French Embassy in Copenhagen
2008: France-MIT collaborative grant
2006-2009: ANR grant Flux vacua, black holes and topological strings
2004-2008: RTN grant Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe
2004-2008: RTN grant The Quest For Unification: Theory Confronts Experiment

2023 : Rédaction du chapitre ‹‹ Lois fondamentales de l’univers ›› du rapport de Prospective scientifique de l’Institut de physique
2013- : Member of the editorial board of JHEP
2012 - 2014: Member of the editorial board of European Journal of Physics C section Gravitation, Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology, General Aspects of Quantum Field Theories and Alternatives
2008-2012: CNRS national comitee section 02 theoretical physics
2008: Member of the LHC safety commitee for the Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire
2005 – 2009: Coordinator of the iPhT sub-node for the European Network Forces Universes
2005 – now: Evaluator for the European Science Foundation
1998 – now: referee for various scientific journals:Nuclear Physics B, Physics Letter B, Communication in Mathematical Physics, JHEP, Classical and Quantum Gravity,Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters Letters in Mathematical Physics

born on Septembre the 23rd, 1970 at Lille, but I grew up in Cuincy near Douai in the North of France. Married, two children.
Sisters: Anne, Aude
Language:
- French: mother tongue.
- English: fluent (read and written with proficiency).
- Russian:
  - French translation with Alla Popova (my wife) of the Albums of Aquarium: Les chansons d’Alexandre Vertinsky et Pesni rybaka (Les chansons du pêcheur)
  - French translation of the book Мнимости в геометрии by Paul Florensky
Sport:
- Volley-ball player
- Horse riding
- Downhill Ski