I am a Junior Professor at the Department of Physics at École Normale Supérieure - Paris Sciences et Lettres, and a Junior Research Chair at the Infection Antimicrobials Modelling and Evolution Laboratory at INSERM, Paris. I am fascinated by the ways microbial interactions drive the dynamics of microbial communities and their functions. Currently, I focus on the emergence of alternative stable states, as well as how ecological regimes impact the spread of antibiotic resistance in community context.
I am currently an MSc Bioinformatics apprentice at Université Paris Cité, with a background in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biotechnology from Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain. My research focuses on investigating shifts between alternative stable states in microbial communities, using both in silico and in vitro approaches.
I have a Master's degree in Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution with a specialization in environmental microbiology. In my previouses research projects I have studied different microbial interactions in both biofilms and cocultures. I am interested in how bacterial interspecies interactions influence community dynamics.
I hold two BSc, in Engineering Physics and Industrial Engineering, from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Barcelona, Spain. Last year I completed my MSc in Physics of Complex Systems, co-organized by ICTP and SISSA (in Trieste, Italy), Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy) and a consortium of universities in Paris (Sorbonne, Paris-Saclay and Paris Cité). I have recently joined Dani's group and will soon start my PhD in Physics at École Normale Supérieure, co-supervised by Dr. Simona Cocco. The aim of my project is to study microbial community function from a theoretical and numerical perspective by combining mathematical models (like Lotka-Volterra or Consumer-Resource models) and data-driven approaches (Restricted Boltzmann Machines) to uncover ecosystem structure and enhance the prediction of function in microbial communities.
I am a biological physicist, with a background in statistical physics. Very generally, I am fascinated by the collective ecological properties of microbial communities and their evolution. During my PhD, I used theoretical models and macroecological data analysis to explore them, focusing on the role of environmental fluctuations. Now, in my postdoc, I'm merging theory, experiments, and natural data to understand the tangled web of ecological forces in action in bacterial communties, especially regarding the emergence of antibiotic resistance by HGT and interactions with viruses. Long-term, I aim to reformulate ecological theory based on bacterial physiology. On a more theoretical level, I'm interested in uncovering general principles governing out-of-equilibrium complex systems, like irreversibility, and their connection to biological evolution.
I am a doctor in Pharmacy, and resident in Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris. I am specialized in medical biology, and to be more precise, bacteriology. I am currently taking a gap year in my medical internship to pursue a Master 2 in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Paris Cité University and Pasteur Institute. For my M2 internship in Daniel Amor's laboratory, I am interested in bacterial communities dynamics and functions, and their role in the resistance to antibiotics.
Master students: Romane Lesurtel (Medicine, ENS), Lilian Dahan (Physics, ENS), Quinn Bellamy (Physics, ENS)