I am an applied mathematician working at the intersection between mathematical modelling and computer science.

Since October 2019, I am a full-time CNRS researcher (chargé de recherche) in the Morpheme team at the I3S laboratory in Sophia-Antipolis, France.

Before that, I was a Lecteur Hadamard research fellow funded by the FMJH working at the CMAP, École Polytechnique, a post-doctoral Marie-Skłodowska Curie fellow at the University of Genova and a PhD student at the Cambridge Image Analysis research group. 

My research focuses on the development of variational methods and efficient algorithms for mathematical image processing. My main research topics are:

• variational models for imaging inverse problems

• adaptive techniques for non-smooth optimisation

• physics-inspired learning for inverse problems

with applications to:

• computational microscopy

• digital restoration and analysis of artworks

• bio-inspired models for vision.

I have been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant 2023 (expected starting date: November 2024). The project MALIN (Model-aware learning for imaging inverse problems in fluorescence microscopy) will conceive and validate new physics-inspired learning methdos for the solution of challenging inverse problems in fluorescence microscopy with many applications in the field of developmental biology. Press releases: here, here and here.

I am a member of the direction committee  of the thematic group MIVA (Mathematics of Imaging, Vision and Applications) labelled by the Mathematical Italian Union (UMI). 

Ongoing funded projects

• ANR JCJC TASKABILE - Task-adapted bilevel learning of flexible statistical models for imaging and vision. Project website

• ANR PRC MICROBLIND - Blind inverse problems and optical microscopy. PI: P. Weiss (CNRS, IMT).

Organisation of upcoming events

• Co-organiser (with S. Vaiter, CNRS, LJAD) of the UCA OptAzur seminar series on optimisation and its applications.

• Co-organiser (with E. Soubies, CNRS, IRIT) of the GdR IASIS thematic workshop on $\ell_0$- based minimization: from continuous relaxations  and non-convex algorithms to global optimization, IHP, Paris, September 16 2024.

Participation to upcoming events

• Invited speaker at the 33rd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2024) in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 30 - July 4 2024.

• Invited speaker at the IX Europe Congress of Mathematics (9ECM) in Seville, Spain, July 15-19 2024.

• Invited speaker at the Optimization Techniques for Inverse Problems conference (OIP2024) in Modena, Italy, September 5-7 2024.

• Invited speaker at the MIA conference on Mathematical Image Analysis, January 13-15 2025, IHP, Paris.