Functions

CNRS Senior Researcher since 1991, at the G2ELab, Grenoble Electrical Engineering Laboratory (CNRS, Grenoble-INP, UJF), in the MAGE (Models, Methods and Methodologies applied to Electrical Engineering) team

Member of the LIA Maxwell (International franco-brazilain laboratory) from 2009 to 2020

Deputy head of the doctoral school EEATS (Ecole Doctorale Electronique, Electrotechnique, Automatique et Traitement du Signal) from 2015 to 2019

Chair of the "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches EEATS" comittee from 2017 to 2020

Responsible of the Power Electrical Engineering Doctoral Department, Grenoble, from 2001 to 2015

Deputy director of the G2Elab from 1998 to 2002

Responsible of the "Modelling and CAD" G2Elab team from 1990 to 1998

Experience 

Author of 275 publications in scientific journals, 400 international scientific conferences

Author of 7 book chapters, scientific coordination of 5 books

Supervision or co-supervision of 70 PhD (including 4 Grenoble-INP thesis prizes)

Participation in 152 Phd committees, 13 HDR committees

Chairman of the EMF 2006 conference, Co-chairman of the CEFC 1994 and CEFC 2014 conferences

Chairman of the scientific committee of the Numelec 2006, 2008 and 2012 conferences

Member of the editorial board of the COMPUMAG and CEFC (IEEE trans-Mag) conferences since 1989

Scientific manager of 33 industrial contracts

G2Elab scientific co-manager of two "sauts technologiques", three ANR projects, one FUI project

Participation in 4 European projects (Eccoflow, Big Powa, Maccharactec, MaGnifit)

Co-author (23%) of the Flux software package, installed on more than 600 sites in France and abroad

Expert in the Engineering Sciences department (DSPT8), MEJNR-MRNT from 2003 to 2007

Member of laboratory assessment committees (L2EP, CEGELY, LEEI, Louis Neel, GREAH)

Chairman of the AERES committee, IREENA laboratory, Saint Nazaire, 2010

Chairman of the LAMEL committee (L2EP Lille joint laboratory, EDF R&D) in 2012, member in 2016

Expert assessment of the quality of Italian research (VQR Italian Research Assessment) in 2012-2013

OneLab Project Expert, Walloon Region, Liège, Belgium in 2012

Expert evaluation of the "Electric Engineering and Computer Science" entity of the University of Liège in 2015

Scientific advisor at Sup-Elec, Paris between 2001 and 2015

Visiting researcher in foreign laboratories (United States, Brazil, Belgium, Romania, Bulgaria, China)

Teacher at ENSE3 (formerly ENSIEG) since 1979 (70 hours per year on average)

Fields of expertise

Models and numerical methods in electromagnetism

Three-dimensional finite element formulations in magnetostatics and magnetodynamics

Integral volume methods, PEEC method and coupling with the finite element method

Modeling of motion, thin or wire regions, infinity

Calculation of the forces and forces densities of electromagnetic origin

Automatic and self-adapting meshing

Homogenization techniques for conductive and magnetic media

Hard and soft magnetic material models: hysteresis, magnetic recording

Modeling of superconducting devices

Modeling of coupled phenomena: magneto-thermal, magneto-mechanical, magnetostriction

Software engineering tools

Distinction

CNRS bronze medal in 1991