Current position

Since September 2010, I hold a postdoctoral position in the laboratory for Biomechanics & Biomechanical Engineering BMBI (CNRS UMR7338) of the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC). My work is advised by Pr Frederic Marin. I am currently working on the COGNITO project funded by the European community FP7 (ICT-2009.2.1 Cognitive Systens and Robotics). The goal of this project is to capture, analyse, store and render with help of 3D graphics complex industrial manual tasks. More precisely, I am involved in the movement analysis part of the COGNITO project. This biomechanical analysis is performed at two levels :

    - an online upper body ergonomic assessment based on the RULA table (McAtamney and Corlett, 1993),

   - an offline musculoskeletal evaluation of the manual task based on a musculoskeletal model of the hand and forearm. This model provides osteo-articular information about the user's hand, using as input data low level sensor data.

Previous professional experience

I was PhD student at the Movement, Sport and Health laboratory (M2S, Rennes 2 University) between September 2005 and December 2009. My PhD work was advised by Assistant Professor Benoit Bideau and was integrated in the Virtual Reality team of the M2S laboratory (.pdf in french). My goal was to evaluate and introduce an innovative methodology based on virtual reality for analyzing visual information uptake during sport situations. This methodology was applied to the handball goalkeeper activity in a duel situation. This work focused on the influence of the projection type (virtual throwing action vs. video filmed sequence) and the influence of the graphical representation of a virtual throwing action (level of detail, biological motion, etc.) on goalkeepers' performance. Moreover, we analyzed the relative importance of salient visual cues (throwing motion, ball trajectory, etc.) for goalkeepers' reaction. We were also interested in the influence of different response modes on the performance by using a coupled response mode (motor task) and an uncoupled response mode (judgment task). This work has been carried out in collaboration with the Bunraku team of the IRISA. I received my PhD in December 2009 with the examining board’s utmost praise.

Education

2009	PhD in Biomechanics – Virtual Reality team M2S laboratory, Rennes 2 University, France
2005	MS Biomechanics, special field "New Technologies, Performance Analysis, Training Follow Up, Aftercare" M2S laboratory, Rennes 2 University, France
2003	BS Sport Training and Certificate in Motion Engineering M2S laboratory, Rennes 2 University, France