Experience

2024: Project “sailing Petit Bouillon”

Achieving a personal long term project after my thesis: to renovate my 8m-sailboat and sail 4000km across Europe (including bay of Biscay, Gibraltar strait crossings).

2020-2024: Doctoral researcher

@PMMH laboratory with Benjamin Thiria and Ramiro Godoy-Diana -Paris

Understanding and modeling collective motion using the example of fish schools

  • Designed and implemented two hydrodynamic experimental setups: mechanical design, sensor electronics, image acquisition, tracking algorithms (pyTrack)
  • Developed data processing and visualization algorithms (Python) and theoretical models
  • 3 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, 4 participations in international conferences
  • Managed 4 research interns and initiated 3 collaborative projects with other research teams
  • Teaching assistant: student project supervision, experimental & training classes
  • PhD students’ representative, organizer of a young researchers’ seminar (4 days, 50 people)

2019: Research intern

@IMSIA laboratory with Benjamin Cotté and Romain Monchaux -Palaiseau

Understanding and modeling collective motion using the example of fish schools

  • Master thesis: Prediction and reduction of noise pollution due to wind turbines
  • Modified and optimized a wind tunnel setup with aerodynamic force measurement (MATLAB, LabView)
  • Developed a pipeline for signal processing of aero-acoustic timeseries (Python)

2017-2020: COO & co-founder of WIND my ROOF

@WIND my ROOF -Paris

Design, production and distribution of an innovative roof-mounted wind turbine module

  • Created the start-up: patent registration, industrialization, business plan, pre-seed
  • Winner of the VINCI Innovation Prize (2017), project supported by the Leonard incubator

2017: Visiting research intern

@M.I.T. in the Fluid dynamic of disease transmission group with Lydia Bourouiba –Boston

Soil pathogens transport by the rain : droplet impacts on granular media

  • Developed an experimental protocol for tracking the ejection of soil particles after a drop impact with high speed cameras (MATLAB)

Education

2020-2023: Doctorate

@PMMH laboratory with Benjamin Thiria and Ramiro Godoy-Diana -Paris

Thesis manuscript

2018-2019: Master of Science

@école Polytechnique - IPP -Paris

  • Fluid mechanics specialization with a focus on current research topics
    • Advanced experimental methods & theory in fluid mechanics
    • Geophysical flows & waves
    • Computational fluid dynamics
    • Turbulence & instabilities
    • Experimental project on Leidenfrost effect (with Ambre Bouillant in LadHyx)

2015-2020: Engineering degree

@École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées –Champs-sur-Marne

Generalist engineering school with a speclization in Material and Mechanical Engineering

  • Advanced applied mathematics, fluid and solid mechanics (theoretical and computational)
  • Algorithmics and data structures (C++), software development (Python), statistics
  • Introduction to research, energy production, project management

2013-2015: Preparatory class

@Lycée Henri-Poincaré –Nancy

  • 2-year intensive post-secondary program preparing to nation-wide test for admission into top French engineering schools (PCSI, PSI*)
    • General mathematics, physics and engineering