Key points of my career

Positions

Since 2020: Professor at Univ. de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, URCA.

• 2021: 1 year sabbatical at Reims (local CRCT + CNRS)

2007-2020: Assistant professor at Univ. Paris-Est Creteil, UPEC.

• 2012: 6 months sabbatical at CNRS (délégation).

2004-2007: Teaching assistant at Univ. Paris-Sud 11 and PhD student at the Centre de Mathématiques Laurent Schwarz (CMLS), Ecole polytechnique.

2000-2004: Student at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Prizes & awards

2018: Special mention of the Jacqueline Ferrand Prize; awarded by the French Mathematical Society (SMF), for pedagogical innovations in Mathematics.

Eduction & Diplomas

2018: Qualifications CNU 26 (N* 19126.176727) & CNU 25 (N* 19125.176727).

2018: Habilitation thesis in Mathematics (Univ. Paris-Est). Jury H. Bahouri, J.L.Bona, J.-Y. Chemin, J.-M. Coron, A.-L. Dalibard, I. Gallagher, T. Gallay, C. Guillopé, F. Sueur.

2007: PhD in Mathematics (Ecole Polytechnique). Advisor J.-Y. Chemin.

2003: Master's degree in numerical analysis (Univ. Paris VI).

2003: Agrégation de Mathématiques (teaching diploma, rank 53/300).

2003: Magistère de mathématiques (MMFAI, ENS Paris / Univ. Paris-Sud XI).

2002: Licence & Maîtrise (ENS Paris / Univ. Paris-Sud XI).

1998: Baccalauréat de l’Académie de Nancy-Metz, with highest honors.

Research contracts

• Head of the project “Dispositifs pédagogiques innovants et réussite en licence” (2014-2017) to finance the creation of the undergraduate program “Apprendre Autrement” (200k Euros).

• Member of the PULSE project (NCU PIA3, 2019-2029) to finance pedagogical innovation. The success of my Apprendre Autrement program played a decisive role in favor of the attribution of this substantial grant to UPEC (10.2 millions Euros). 

• Member of the ANR Project INFAMIE, Inhomogeneous Flows: Asymptotic Models and Inter- faces Evolution (2016-2019); headed by Raphaël Danchin, UPEC (233k Euros, 9 participants). 

• Member of a Hubert Curien EGIDE STAR France-Korea project (2008-2009); headed by Lorenzo Brandolese, Univ. Lyon 1 (15k Euros, 4 participants). 

• Member of the Elie Cartan project (2008); headed by Mike Scherfner, T.U. Berlin, 2 participants. 

Responsibilities

In 2014, I have created and subsequently been the head of a new curriculum in Engineering at UPEC. I am tasked with managing the teaching team and supervising the pedagogical content, and in charge of integrating the program into the university. Because of this experience, and also because of the honorable mention from the Jacqueline Ferrand Prize in 2018, I was invited by the dean, Jacques Moscovici, to join the directors’ college at the head of the Science Department (UFR), where have been tasked with numerous responsibilities. 

On the scientific front, my goal is to broaden my network of collaborators in each of my thematics. I have varied responsibilities as an event organizer and for the evaluation of research and of teachers. I also choose to be regularly involved in outreach events. 

Institutional responsibilities  

a. Major administrative responsibilities

• Associate director of the Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Reims (2024-2029).

• Head of the "Analysis'' team of the Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Reims (2020+).

• Member of the COVID-19 crisis management cell of the UFR de Sciences et Technologies (7  people): acting as advisor to the dean, mediator with the teaching departments, administrative coordinator, and directly involved in the deployment of distance learning.

• Mandate within the special head committee of the UFR de Sciences et Technologies (2018-2020), in charge of defining the new curriculum for Mathematics & Computer science: I am in charge of the corresponding pedagogical workshops and have weekly meeting with the dean (1h to 2h/week).

• Head of the undergraduate curriculum Apprendre Autrement (=learn differently, uninterrupted since 2014): admission and followup of students, organization of the pedagogical team, integration in the UFR, meetings, juries. 

• Creation of the Apprendre Autrement program (2014-2017): head of the IDEA grant (200kE), joint creation of the first- and second-year math, physics and computer science classes (work ≥ 2000h), organization of the pedagogical team. 

• Every year : administrative management of 6 to 9 classes: managing temps for 18 to 20 groups/semester, preparation of the exams (including for the adjuncts), followup of practical classes in computer science, juries. 

b. Local responsibilities  

• Designated member of the LMR council (2020+).

• Representative of the LMR in the users comite of the HPC plateform ROMEO (2020+).

• Representative for the dean of the UFR of Sciences among the “comité des référents pédagogiques des composantes de l’UPEC” (since 2019). The role of this committee is to evaluate and grand credits (about 350kE/year) to new proposals in pedagogy.

• Speaker for the UFR of Sciences at the open doors event of UPEC (since 2019).

• Head of the Parcours-Sup cell (ranking and admission of new students, since 2018). 

• Elected member of the LAMA council (2016-2019). 

• Corresponding member of the association Passeport-Avenir / Article 1 at UPEC (2016-2018). 

• “Enseignant référent” (coaching) for first-year students (uninterrupted since 2014). 

c. National responsibilities

• Advisor for the Inspection Générale de l’éducation, du sport et de la recherche (2020).

• Member of the teaching committee of the SMAI (since 2018). 

• Advisor and corrector for the Concours d’Admission (entrance examination) of the École Polytechnique (2011-2018): development of new computer tools to improve ergonomics, efficiency and quality control of the ranking process. 

• Corrector for the Concours Commun Mines Ponts (2011). 

• Member of a “Groupe Académique de Liaison Lycée-Université” (2010-2013). 

Scientific responsibilities

a. Research coordination

Organization of seminars (14  cumulative years)

• 2007-2016: monthly interdisciplinary Colloquium.

• 2007-2010: monthly seminar in PDEs.

Organization of international conferences (scientific committee)

• Conference in honor of Jean-Yves Chemin (IHP, March 2019).

• Closing conference of the ANR Inhomogeneous Flows: Asymptotic Models and Interfaces Evolution (Aug. 2020).

• Organizer of a special session at the 13th AIMS International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations (Atlanta, June 2020). 

b. Evaluation activities

• Member of 3 hiring committees: Univ. Rouen, 2008; UPEC, 2011; UPEM, 2020.

• Regular reviews for international journals (3/year).

• Member of the “Comité des référents pédagogiques des composantes de l’UPEC”, for the evaluation and financing of pedagogical initiatives (since 2019).

c. Outreach events

• Coaching for “Math en Jeans” (13 events in 3 middle schools, 2012-2018). My task was to propose mathematical challenges and provide guidance until the students are ready to show off their results at a national event.

• Organizer of an open day for high school students, at UPEC (2011).

Other research activity indicators

• 3 PhD students (including 2 already defended). 

• 7 minor supervisions (4 graduate M1 theses, 1 M2 theses, 2 post-doc). 

• 20 completed research papers : 17 articles published (or accepted) in international reviewed journals, 1 proceedings and 2 articles currently submitted for evaluation. 

• 10 current active collaborations, 3 imminent preprints.

• 1 long-term large-scale project on the foundations of Turbulence. 

• 3 original memoirs in French (PhD thesis, 178 pages; habilitation thesis, 107 pages; pedagogy memoir for the Jacqueline Ferrand Prize, 95 pages). 

• 1 scientific YouTube channel. 

• 60 communications in national and international conferences and seminars, including 12 talks abroad, 3 poster sessions and 35 invitations since my PhD in 2007. 

• 15 research trips abroad of 1 week or longer. 

• 5 invitations of foreign researchers to UPEC: D.S. Jerison, 2009; H.-O. Bae, 2009; R. Shvydkoy, 2013, 2014; M. Caggio, 2016. 

• 11 collaborators co-signing at least one paper: R. Anton, SU; H. Bahouri, CNRS; L. Brandolese, Lyon 1 ; R. Hadiji, UPEC ; C. Imbert, ENS ; N. Lerner, SU; N. Mihalache, UPEC ; S. Mustapha, SU ; S. Seuret, UPEC ; R. Shvydkoy, UIC ; I. Vasilyev, UPEC.

• Highly versatile research themes: numerical analysis, physics modeling, analysis of PDEs (both parabolic and elliptic), microlocal analysis, multifractal analysis, wavelets, sub-riemannian geometry and even pedagogy.