Education & Professional Experience

[Since 2022]    Tenured Associate Professor, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

[2020-2022]    Long-term fellow, Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity, Paris (Principal Investigator)

   * 3 year contract: Birdsong for Human(e) voices: Building efficient voice prostheses inspired from bird vocal system

[2017-2019]    Postdoctoral fellow, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France in Biomechanics and Modelling (S Van Wassenbergh)

                             * 2 year contract: Biomechanics of intra-oral water flow generation in fish  

[2015-2016]    Career break for medical reasons

[2014-2015]    Postdoctoral fellow, University of São Paulo, Brazil in Anatomy and Evolution (E Höfling)

                            * 2 year contract: Morphological study of the pelvic system of Neotropical birds       

 [2012-2013]    Postdoctoral fellow, Gipsa-Lab and INRIA, France in Computer Science, Modelisation (O Martin, L Reveret)

                             * 1 year contract: Analysis of Human Shapes and Motions: Biomechanical analysis from 4D data

[2009-2012]     PhD in Functional Morphology (Frontières du Vivant - Paris Diderot)

                            * 3 year contract: Morpho-functional study of the pelvic system of birds, new elements on the origin of flight 

[2010]             Diploma in Geosciences, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris

[2008-2009]    Master of Sciences (2nd year) in Systematic, Evolution and Paleontology, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, (Paris, France)

                            * 6 months internship: Morpho-functional comparison between the teal and the quail (A Abourachid)

[2007]              Teaching College Certificate

[2006-2008]    Preparation for the highly competitive entrance examination for teaching in French High Schools “Biology & Earth Sciences”

[2004-2006]    Master of Sciences in Earth, Atmosphere and Ocean, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, France)

                             * 6 months internship: Description of a new species of Sapeornis, basal bird of the Liaoning Cretaceous (ZH Zhou)

                             * 1 month internship: Comparative morphology of a Lizard from the Chad (G Garcia)

[2002-2004]    Preparation for the highly competitive entrance examination to French Engineering Top Schools “Biology, Chemistry, Physics & Earth Sciences”

[2002]            French Equivalent of an A-level obtained with distinction “Mathematics, Physics and Earth Sciences”