My work

I was a professor of Condensed Matter Physics at Grenoble University. The main goal of my research was to understand deformation and rupture processes in solids, combining experiments or observations in the one hand, and theoretical modeling on the other hand. 

Then, I gradually started using theoretical tools from physics of complex systems (and in particular the theory of dynamical systems), to deformation and failure problems in materials physics and in geophysics. including snow avalanches. I recently applied these tools to theoretical studies of climate change and of epidemic growth.