Curriculum Vitae
This page outlines my professional appointments, administrative duties, research funding, distinctions, and some personal information.
Career
- 2017 - 2022 : 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
Administration
- 2026 - : Member of the editorial board of Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
- 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
Grants
- 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
Distinctions
- 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).
Personal informations
- 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