I was born on Septembre the 23rd, 1970 at Lille, but I grew up in Cuincy near Douai in the North of France.
Married since August, the 19^th, 2000.

• 2008 - now: On leave of absence at Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
• 2007: Habilitation à diriger les recherches from the University of Paris VI
• 2001 - 2003: On leave of absence at the Theory Division at CERN (Switzerland).
• 2000 - now: Permanent position as Ingénieur CEA at the Institut de Physique théorique of CEA-Saclay. Member of the String theory group.
• 1998 - 2000: Post-doctoral position at the DAMTP of the university of Cambridge (England).
• 1995 - 1998: Doctor in Theoretical Physics: PhD in theoretical physics on superstring theory at the Centre de physique théorique of the École polytechnique, under the direction of Constantin Bachas
  
• 1994 - 1995: Military service & Agrégation de mathématiques
• June 1994: DEA Physique Théorique (École normale supérieure, Paris)
• 1991 - 1996: École normale supérieure of Paris
• 1986 - 1991: Lycée Albert Châtelet, Douai

• 2010 - : Piotr Tourkine (PhD student)
• 2010: Valentin Assassi (master student project)
• 2010: Piotr Tourkine (master student project)
• 2009: Quentin Pierre (master student project)
  
• 2005-2007: Yann Michel (PhD student)

• 2012 - : Editor of European Journal of Physics C section  Gravitation, Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology, General Aspects of Quantum Field Theories and Alternatives
• 2008-2012: CNRS national comitee section 02 theoretical physics
• 2008: Member of the LHC safety commitee for the Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire
• 2005 -- 2009: Coordinator of the iPhT sub-node for the European Network Forces Universes
• 2005 -- now: Evaluator for the European Science Foundation
• 1998 -- now: referee for various scientific journals:Nuclear Physics B, Physics Letter B, Communication in Mathematical Physics, JHEP, Classical and Quantum Gravity,Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters Letters in Mathematical Physics

• 2012: Lecture on Amplitude computations in (super)gravity and gauge theory (IIP-ICTP SCHOOL ON GRAVITY AND STRING THEORY)
• 2011: Lecture introduction to string theory (Corfu 2011)
• 2011: Cours d'école doctorale  calculs perturbatifs en gravité quantique
• 1996-1998: Courses in mathematics at the  École polytechnique given to the foreign students.
  
• 1996-1998: Supervisor of research work of the students from the École polytechnique.

• 2009: Honorable Mention in the  Awards for Essays in Gravitation by the Gravity Research Foundation
  
• 1998: Thesis price from the École polytechnique (France).

• 2012-2015: Franco-Russian  collaborative grant (PICS)
• 2010: Franco-Danish collaborative grant attributed by the French Embassy in Copenhaguen
• 2008: France-MIT collaborative grant
• 2006-2009: ANR grant flux vacua, black holes and topological strings
• 2004-2008: RTN grant Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe
• 2004-2008: RTN grant The Quest For Unification: Theory Confronts Experiment