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I am a researcher at Inria in Rennes, France, in the I4S team.

My research focuses on structural vibration analysis, where the statistical and numerical aspects of system identification and fault detection meet with engineering specifics of civil, mechanical or aeronautical structures. My objectives are methods for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) that are fast and robust in operation conditions, while ensuring numerical feasibility for realistic problem sizes of heavily instrumented structures. In my work, both strong theoretical developments and their applications to large-scale structures in the field can be found.

Recent news:

• Our paper on damage quantification at the IFAC SAFEPROCESS conference 2015 has been nominated for the Paul M. Frank Award that honors the best theoretical paper.
• Invited talk at the public session of the French Academy of Sciences during their travel to the Brittany region, Rennes, 13/05/2014 (video).
• Invited talk on "Uncertainty Quantification for Monitoring of Civil Structures from Vibration Measurements" at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, 30/04/2014.
• I was awarded the Young Researcher Prize 2013 of the Bretagne region (video). Articles about my work appeared in Ouest France and Sciences Ouest (in French).
• I take on a permanent research position (chargé de recherche) at Inria in Rennes, France, in December 2013.
• I'm member of the organizing committee of the 7th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, to be held 8-11 July 2014 in Nantes, France.
• Poster at the 1st Colloquium Rennais des Sciences du Numerique, 17/04/2013.
• I got an Adolf Martens fellowship for a postdoc at the Federal Institute of Material Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin, Germany, starting January 2013. I work at the Safety of Structures Department, Division Buildings and Structures, on structural health monitoring for wind energy converters.
• Talk on "Uncertainty Quantification for Inverse Problems in Structural Dynamics" at the University of Vermont, Burlington, 29/11/2012.
• An article on my collaboration with SVS appeared in the Inria newsletter émergences (in French) and here (in English).
• I start a postdoc at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Northeastern University, Boston MA, USA with Prof. Dionisio Bernal in March 2012. I will work on these projects.
• My thesis was awarded with the Foundation Rennes 1 Doctorate Award, First Prize, see also here (in French). This prize is given for theses defended at the doctoral school Matisse, Rennes, 2010-2011, with the highest potential of innovation and/or technology transfer.
• Talk on "Operational Modal Analysis and Damage Detection for Large Structures" at FEMTO-ST, Besançon, 02/02/2012.
• My contribution to the FP7 IRIS project in collaboration with Falk Hille (BAM) was awarded with the IRIS Prize of Excellence 2011.