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Education

• 2003 : Bachelor in physics, Université libre de Bruxelles.
• 2005 : Master in physics, master thesis under the supervision of both Profs. Stefano Ruffo (Florence, Italy) and Pierre Gaspard, Université libre de Bruxelles.
• 2006 : DEA (advanced diploma) in sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles.
• 2010 : PhD in physics, under the direction of Prof. Pierre Gaspard, Université libre de Bruxelles.

Positions

• 2005-2010 : Full time teaching assistant, Université libre de Bruxelles, Department of Physics.
• 2010-2011 : Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto (Canada), Department of Chemistry.
• 2011-2013 : Postdoctoral fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Department of Physics.
• 2013-2014 : Postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven, Department of Chemistry.
• 2014-2020 : FWO postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven, Institute for Theoretical Physics.
• 2022-2023 : Guest professor at KU Leuven (course Computational Physics: Advanced Monte Carlo Methods)
• 2020- : Scientist at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium

Awards and Grants

• 2010: Prize "Rayonnement International" from the Université libre de Bruxelles.
• 2012: Travel grant from the FNRS.
• 2014-2017: FWO postdoctoral fellowship.
• 2017-2020: FWO postdoctoral fellowship (renewal).

Professional activities

• Topic editor with the Journal of Open Source Software
• Associate editor with ReScience.
• Chair of the IT user committee at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (2021-).
• Co-editor of the SciPy Lecture Notes
• EuroSciPy conferences: co-chair (2012 and 2013), webmaster (2013-2015), proceedings editor (2014 and 2015) and program committee member (2014-2016).
• Member of the American Association of Physics Teachers (2009-2020).
• 2012-2013: Member of the board of administrators of the Université libre de Bruxelles.
• 2016: organizer of the scientific workshop "Modeling of chemically powered nanomotors".
• 2018: organizer of the 2018 Leuven Summer school on nonequilibrium
• Referee for the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, The Journal of Open Source Software and other journals.

Languages spoken

• Mother language : French.
• Fluent in : English, Italian.
• Intermediate level : Dutch.

Computer skills

• Languages: Fortran 77/2008, Python, C, C++, bash, Cython.
• Publishing: LaTeX, html, css, markdown, reStructuredText.
• Software engineering: version control (git), build systems (Make, cmake), testing.
• Other tools: HDF5 file format, HPC environments, reproducible research, Emacs and Vim.
• Linux systems administration.