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I am a researcher at the Toulouse Biotechnology Institute (TBI, INRAE), working on the water-food-energy nexus. I look at fluxes of organic matter and the associated networks to determine how one could recover nutrients that are curently lost in cities and bring them back to the soil for a more sustainable agri-food system. I investigate source-separation of human excreta (urine and feces) and how to convert them into fertilizer for agriculture. This work is the continuation of my previous project (codename CAFE) that was performed with Fabien Esculier and the OCAPI program at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.

Previously, I worked on complex systems and networks, notably in neuroscience. I did my first postdoc at the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, in the team of Anna Levina, where I investigated complex networks and the impact of neuronal energetics on the behavior and function of neurons and neuronal networks.

I defended my PhD in the NeuroPhysics team of the MSC laboratory in Paris 7. My thesis subject concerned the growth and activity of neural cultures, focusing on the emergence of organized behaviors (more details and manuscript on the PhD project page).

Curriculum

  • 2025--today: permanent position as an INRAE researcher in TBI, working on

  • 2022--2025: postdoctoral fellowship on Circular Agri-Food Ecosystems, analyzing trajectories to recover nutrients in cities and bring them back to agricultural parcels, in the LEESU (ENPC, UPEC) thanks to a Marie Curie Action.

  • 2019--2022: postdoctoral project on complex networks and neuronal* energetics in the lab of Anna Levina (University of Tübingen, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics) thank to a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship.

  • 2015--2018: PhD student in the CNRS/Paris Diderot University "Matter and Complex Systems Laboratory", supervised by P. Monceau and S. Bottani.
    Subject: Growth and activity of neural cultures, emergence of organized behaviors.
    Theoretical work based on the observations from our collaborators in Barcelona and at the Weizmann and Curie institutes, in Rehovot (Israel) and Paris. Rewarded by the Complex Systems prize from the ISC

Skills

  • Theoretical:

    • Modeling.

    • Complex systems and complex networks analysis.

    • Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA).

  • Computer and programming:

    • Unix administration.

    • (Geospatial) Data manipulation.

    • Hybrid programming in MPI/OpenMP (C++).

    • Object-Oriented and scientific programming in Python/Cython.

  • Languages:

    • French (native speaker).

    • English (fluent).

    • German (former B2).

    • Japanese, B1 level.

Activities

Member of Scientist Rebellion France.

I like bouldering and SciFi.

Previous involvements:

  • Former member of Labos 1point5.

  • Former member of the Max Planck Sustainability Network (MPSN), part of the 1st steering committee and of the Advisory Board.

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