About

Research scientist and freelance developer working where wave physics, computational electromagnetics and open-source scientific software meet.

I'm a research scientist and software developer based in France. My work sits at the intersection of wave physics and computational engineering, where I build open-source numerical tools and use them to explore how electromagnetic and mechanical waves behave in structured materials.

I received my Master's degrees in Engineering from Centrale Marseille and in Physics from Aix Marseille University in 2009. I then joined the Fresnel Institute (CNRS), where I pursued a PhD in collaboration with Silios Technologies. My thesis focused on the theoretical, numerical and experimental study of electromagnetic metamaterials using a modal approach, applied to infrared multispectral filtering. I received my PhD from Centrale Marseille in April 2013.

After two postdoctoral positions at the Fresnel Institute (first on ray tracing in complex media, then on resonant optical antennas), I moved to London in 2014 to join the Antennas and Electromagnetics group at Queen Mary, University of London. Over eight years there I worked on topology optimization for invisibility cloaks, machine-learning-driven inverse design, and the homogenization of ferroelectric metamaterials for tunable microwave devices.

From 2022 to 2025 I was a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Imperial College London in the Department of Mathematics, where I worked on high-frequency homogenization of dispersive media for vibration energy harvesting with metamaterials. Since late 2025 I work independently as a freelance software developer, consulting and building open-source tools for photonics and electronics (including gsim, a GDSFactory plugin for full-wave electromagnetic simulation).

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Positions

Oct. 2025 – present
Freelance software developer
Bras, France
Consulting and open-source software development. Contributing to gsim, a GDSFactory plugin for full-wave electromagnetic simulation in photonics and electronics.
Aug. 2022 – Aug. 2025
Research Associate
Imperial College London
METAVEH project: high-frequency homogenization in dispersive media for vibration energy harvesting with metamaterials.
Jan. 2019 – Jul. 2022
Research Assistant
Queen Mary, University of London
ANIMATE project: nonlinear coupling and homogenization of ferroelectric metamaterials, inverse design for tunability, microwave and THz material characterization.
Jan. 2017 – Dec. 2018
Research Assistant
Queen Mary, University of London
AOTOMAT project: optimization tools and machine learning for the design of electromagnetic devices and materials.
Jul. 2014 – Dec. 2016
Research Assistant
Queen Mary, University of London
QUEST project: transformation optics applied to invisibility cloaks and metamaterial-based devices. Simulation tools and topology optimization for exotic material properties.
Nov. 2013 – Jan. 2014
Research Assistant
Institut Fresnel, Marseille
Resonant optical antennas: coupling of light to subwavelength particles, modal analysis of electric and magnetic resonances for emission pattern shaping.
May 2013 – Oct. 2014
Research Assistant
Institut Fresnel, Marseille
Ray tracing in complex media, inverse index distribution problems, deshomogenization with graded-index photonic crystals.
Oct. 2009 – Apr. 2013
PhD in Physics
Institut Fresnel and Silios Technologies
Study of open electromagnetic resonators by modal approach (CIFRE scholarship). FEM eigenmode analysis of bi-periodic diffractive structures. Design, fabrication and characterization of metamaterial-based infrared filters.
Apr. 2009 – Sept. 2009
MS research internship
LMA, CNRS, Marseille
Model order reduction of reed instruments for sound synthesis via proper orthogonal decomposition.

Education

Apr. 2013
PhD in Physics
Institut Fresnel, CNRS, Centrale Marseille
Optics, Photonics and Image Processing
Oct. 2009
Master's degree in Physics
Centrale Marseille / LMA, CNRS
Mechanics, Physics and Engineering, specialization in Acoustics
Oct. 2009
Master's degree in Engineering
Centrale Marseille
High-level scientific and technical training

Teaching and supervision

Feb. 2023 – Sept. 2023
PhD co-supervision
Imperial College London
Visiting student from Politecnico di Milano. Isospectral open cavities and curvilinear homogenization.
Jul. 2023 – Sept. 2023
Summer project supervision
Imperial College London
Applied mathematics undergraduate project on optimizing dispersion in discrete phononic lattices (3 months).
2019
Teaching assistant
Queen Mary, University of London
Quantum Programming: lectures, tutorials and coding projects in Q# and Python for 10 Master students.
Sept. 2018 – Apr. 2022
PhD co-supervision
Queen Mary, University of London
Data-driven optimization of metasurfaces (2 PhD students).
Nov. 2018 – Apr. 2019
Undergraduate project co-supervision
Queen Mary, University of London
Multidisciplinary project on detecting emotions with physiological and microwave measurements (4 students).
2012
Internship supervisor
Institut Fresnel, CNRS
Optimization of diffractive infrared filters for multispectral imaging (1 engineering student, 6 months).
2011
Project tutor
Institut Fresnel, CNRS
Design of high-efficiency solar cells with metamaterials (5 students, 2 months).

Awards

2014
Best PhD Thesis 2013
Doctoral School 352, Physics and Condensed Matter Science
2014
Best PhD Thesis 2013
CNano PACA, nanosciences and nanotechnologies cluster
Finalized research category

Skills and interests

Languages: Python, Matlab, C, C++, Mathematica, Q#, LaTeX, HTML, CSS
Tools: git, FEniCS, COMSOL Multiphysics, Gmsh, GetDP, Gsolver, Gimp, LibreOffice, Labview
Spoken: French (mother tongue), English (fluent), Spanish (basic)
Interests: Optics, photonics, metamaterials, wave physics, light-matter interaction, homogenization, computational electromagnetics, optimization, inverse design, finite element and Fourier modal methods, machine learning, transformation optics, open-source science
Outside work: Music, guitar, football, snowboard, hiking, traveling, cooking