About
Research Interests
My research is mainly focused on wave physics including metamaterials, Transformation Optics, homogenization techniques, resonant phenomena, light-matter interaction, scattering, diffraction, modal analysis, and topology optimization, for applications in Photonics and Mechanics.
Biography
I received the Master’s degree in Engineering from Centrale Marseille (Marseille, France) and the Master’s degree in Physics from Aix Marseille University (Marseille, France) in 2009.
I then joined Fresnel Institute, CNRS (Marseille, France) where I pursued a PhD in collaboration with the company Silios Technologies (Peynier, France). This joint project dealt with the theoretical, numerical and experimental study of electromagnetic metamaterials using a modal approach and their application to infrared multispectral filtering. I received my PhD for this work from Centrale Marseille in April 2013.
I continued as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Fresnel Institute working on the development of simulation tools for ray tracing in complex media and the study of resonant antennas for the control of their emission properties.
I then joined the Antennas and Electromagnetics research group at Queen Mary, University of London (London, UK) in July 2014, as part of the QUEST project. My work focused on topology optimization techniques for the design of invisibility cloaks and novel metamaterial based devices with specific electromagnetic properties.
Since August 2022, I am a Research Assistant in Imperial College London, working in the Department of Mathematics.
Curriculum Vitae
You can download my CV here.
Education
PhD in Physics
Institut Fresnel, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France
April 2013
Optics, Photonics and image processingMaster's degree in Physics
Centrale Marseille / Laboratoire de Mécanique et d’Acoustique, CNRS, Marseille, France
Oct. 2009
Mechanics, Physics and Engineering, specialization in AcousticsMaster's degree in Engineering
Centrale Marseille, Marseille, France
Oct. 2009
High level scientific and technical trainingResearch activities
Research assistant
Research Assistant, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Aug. 2022 -- Present
METAVEH project: vibration energy harvesting with metamaterials.Postdoctoral research assistant
Queen Mary, University of London, Antennas & Electromagnetics research group, London, United Kingdom
Jan. 2019 -- Jul. 2022
ANIMATE project: nonlinear coupling model and homogenization of ferroelectric metamaterials, inverse design for tunability enhancement, microwave and THz material characterization.Postdoctoral research assistant
Queen Mary, University of London, Antennas & Electromagnetics research group, London, United Kingdom
Jan. 2017 -- Dec. 2018
AOTOMAT project : Optimization tools and machine learning for the design of electromagnetic devices and materials.Postdoctoral research assistant
Queen Mary, University of London, Antennas & Electromagnetics research group, London, United Kingdom
July 2014 -- Dec. 2016
Project QUEST: Transformation Optics applied to the design, fabrication and characterization of novel electromagnetic devices using metamaterials. Development of simulation tools and optimization techniques to design artificial material with enhanced characteristics and exotic properties.Postdoctoral research assistant
Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France
Nov. 2013 -- Jan. 2014
Resonant antennas. Numerical study of the coupling of light to subwavelength particles. Modal analysis of electric and magnetic resonances to shape the emission pattern and control the local density of states.Postdoctoral research assistant
Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France
May 2013 -- Oct. 2014
Development of simulation tools for ray tracing in complex media, inverse problem of finding index distribution to make light follow a prescribed path, deshomogenization technique with graded index photonic crystals.PhD in Physics
Institut Fresnel – Silios Technologies, Marseille, France
Oct. 2009 -- Apr. 2013
Study of open electromagnetic resonators by modal approach. Application to infrared multispectral filtering.(CIFRE PhD scholarship: this French grant allowed me to work simultaneously in academia and industry). Numerical modelling based on the Finite Element Method to find eigenmodes of bi-periodic diffractive structures. Spectral representation of the diffracted field, giving a pertinent reduced order model and highlighting the conditions of resonant excitation of leaky modes. Application to the design of infrared filters for multispectral imaging devices. Fabrication and characterization of metamaterial based reflexion bandcut and transmission bandpass filters.MS Research Internship
Laboratoire de Mécanique et d’Acoustique, CNRS, Marseille, France
Apr. 2009 -- Sept. 2013
Model order reduction of reed instruments for sound synthesis: a proper orthogonal modes approach. Numerical study and validation of proper orthogonal decomposition of the pressure field, optimal in the meaning of energy distribution.Teaching / supervising experience
Teaching assistant
Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom
2019
Quantum Programming. Lectures and tutorials on quantum gates and circuits. Coding laboratory and projects in Q# an Python (10 Master students, 6 months)Internship supervisor
Institut Fresnel, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Marseille, France
2012
Optimization of diffractive spectral infrared filters (1 engineer student, 6 months).Internship supervisor
Institut Fresnel, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Marseille, France
2011
Optimization of absorption in solar cells (4 engineer students, 3 months).Awards and honours
Best PhD thesis in 2013
Doctoral School 352, Physics and Condensed Matter Science
2014
Best PhD thesis in 2013
CNano PACA, synergy cluster on nanosciences and nanotechnologies
2014
Finalized research categoryLanguages
Programming
- Linux
- Windows
- Matlab
- Python
- C, C++
- Mathematica
- Labview
- Latex
- Comsol Multiphysics
- Gmsh
- GetDP
- Gsolver
- Gimp
- LibreOffice
Interests
Professional
- Optics
- Photonics
- microwave engineering
- Transformation Optics
- invisibility cloaking
- resonant processes
- light-matter interraction
- plasmonics
- photovoltaics
- computational EM
- numerical modelling
- optimization techniques
- finite element method
- Fourier modal method
- FDTD
- modal analysis
- wave physics
- fabrication
- characterization
- music
- guitar
- football
- snowboard
- hiking
- traveling
- cooking