Bio

After getting a secondary degree in Music Studies in harp from the Montbéliard Regional Conservatory (2012), I double-majored in Social Sciences (Sciences Po Paris) and in Physics & Chemistry (Université Paris VI) in 2015. I got a first master's degree in Cultural Public Affairs from Sciences Po (Paris) in 2018. I then reoriented my interest from cultural and especially musical management and policy towards fundamental research in music, from a cognitive scientific perspective. I got a second master's degree in Cognitive Science with a focus on linguistics from Paris Ecole Normale Supérieure, EHESS and Université Paris V (2019), where I wrote my master's thesis "Towards a theory of music semantics" under the supervision of Philippe Schlenker (CNRS, NYU), in which I tried to criticize and enrich Schlenker's theory of music semantics that aims at applying the methods of formal semantics to the analysis of music. Also very interested in philosophy, I finally got a master's degree in Philosophy from the Université Paris Nanterre (2019), where I wrote a master's thesis entitled "Steps towards a meta-theory of musical meaning" under the supervision of Denis Bonnay. In October 2019, I started a PhD on music semantics under the co-supervision of Philippe Schlenker and Jean-Julien Aucouturier (CNRS, Femto-ST) at the Institut Jean Nicod at the Paris Ecole Normale Supérieure, funded by the ED3C Doctoral School (Cerveau, Cognition, Comportement, n°158) co-managed by ENS, PSL and Sorbonne Université. I completed and defended my PhD in August 2023, and started a job as a permanent Professor and Researcher at the Institut Français de la Mode in Paris, where I am teaching different classes in logic, quantitative analysis and statistics, cognitive science applied to clothing, and on the music/fashion relationship, tutoring tutoring Bachelor and Master's theses and conducting research on semantic and pragmatic approaches to meaning in music and fashion.