Curriculum

Full CV  (updated May 2021)

I  grew up in France and in Austria and studied theoretical physics at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) and Moscow State University (MSU, Russia). After computational work on crystal growth in gels, I turned to experiments in the field of physical chemistry (colloidal crystal growth, thin films, heterogeneous nucleation) and biomineralization, in the US (Northwestern University, Chicago) and in France (CEA Saclay, LIONS). After my PhD, I worked for two years as an engineer in a start-up company, Accelerators & Cryogenic Systems. I got passionately involved in the study of  gut development when I started my postdoc at Laboratoire Matière & Systèmes Complexes (MSC). I was hired in 2016 as a CNRS staff scientist, in the Morphodyn Team of MSC at Université Paris Cité. I later started investigating the physiology of another, in many ways similar smooth muscle organ, the uterus.  Today we work on both topics in collaborations with clinicians from Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades (intestine, Hirschprung disease) and from Hôpital Paris Saint Joseph (uterus, endometriosis, adenomyosis).

  • 2016 – present : CNRS Researcher in the Morphodyn team, MSC Laboratory, Université de Paris.
  • 2014 – 2016 :  Labex « Who Am I ? » Postdoctoral Fellow, joint project with A.Asnacios (MSC) and V. Proux (Institut Jacques Monod).
  • 2013 – 2014 : Postdoctoctoral Fellow in biophysics in Vincent Fleury’s group at Laboratoire Matière & Systèmes Complexes (MSC), Paris Diderot University.
  • 2011 – 2013 : Research engineer, « Accelerators & Cryogenic Systems », Orsay, France.
  • 2007 – 2010 : PhD in physical chemistry at CEA Saclay, LIONS lab, with P.Guenoun and C. Chevallard.
  • 2006 – 2007 : Pre-doctoral fellow in physical chemistry in Bartosz Grzybowski’s group at Northwestern Univeristy Evanston, IL, USA.
  • 2001 – 2006 : M.Sc. in Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. 3rd year abroad at Moscow State University (MSU), Russia.
  • 2000 : Scientific Baccalaureate, Lycée Français de Vienne, Austria.