From 2001 to 2005, I prepared my PhD at the Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (LIFL) in the Optimisation PArallèle Coopérative (OPAC) team led at that time by Professor El-Ghazali Talbi.

The title of my PhD is "Design of cooperative algorithms for multi-objective optimization: Application to Flow-shop scheduling problems", the defense having taken place on June 21, 2005. During my PhD, I was first an instructor in higher education and then a temporary lecturer in teaching and research.

I then did two post-doctoral internships. The first one took place in Switzerland at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich where I collaborated with Eckart Zitzler in the field of multiobjective optimization under uncertainty.

The second was in England at the University of Nottingham, where I collaborated with Edmund K. Burke in the field of hyperheuristics.

I was recruited in September 2007 as a lecturer in the Metaheuristics, Optimization and Applications (MOA) team of the Laboratoire d'Etude et de Recherche en Informatique d'Angers (LERIA), a position I still hold today.

Since my recruitment, I have been in charge of various courses in different computer science areas, mostly in the computer science studies offered at the University of Angers (Bachelor and Master). I headed, from September 2008 to September 2012, the L1 MPCIE (First year of "Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science and Economics" bachelor) at the University of Angers. The first year of the MPCIE portal leading to different bachelor's degrees involved about 200 students. I was in charge of designing the timetable (for all the disciplines), coordinating all the courses and subjects, preparing the jury, providing practical help to the students. I was then in charge of the informatical aspect of the L1 MPCIE between 2013 and the start of the 2017 academic year. During the same period, I was in charge of the computer course of the "L1 in two years", a system set up at the University of Angers for the L1 MPCIE (between 2013 and 2016). The aim was to encourage the acceptance of non-scientific bachelors or those with gaps.

Concerning my research activities, an important part of my work concerns metaheuristics for multiobjective optimization, which was the main subject of my thesis. These activities in the field of multiobjective optimization naturally led me to participate regularly in the PM2O (MultiObjective Mathematical Programming) working group of the french research group on operational research (GdR RO). I thus became the coordinator of this group with Laëtitia Jourdan (INRIA Lille) and Nicolas Jozefowiez (LCOMS, Metz) from 2008 to 2013. In 2013, we decided to dissolve this research group and to create in continuity the ATOM working group (Applications and Theory of Multi-Objective Optimization), also supported by the GdR RO. I still coordinate this group in collaboration with Laëtitia Jourdan and Thibaut Lust (LIP6, Paris). In the field of multiobjective optimization, I co-supervised Ron-Qiang Zeng's thesis from September 2008 to July 2012 and Brahim Chabane's thesis from December 2013 to December 2017. I also supervised Arnaud Liefooghe's research master internship in 2006 and Arthur Chambon's in 2013.

For several years, my desire to understand more precisely the behavior of metaheuristics has led me to become more interested in single-objective optimization, which is a much more accessible framework for this kind of study. In particular, I am collaborating with Adrien Goëffon (Angers) on this aspect, which has become increasingly important in my recent research. I am particularly interested in the study of research landscapes and the development of new approaches to explore them. Although my interest in single-objective optimization is recent, it quickly led me to supervise several master research internships in this field: Pierre Desport and Vincent Vigneron in 2013, Hugo Traverson in 2014 and Sara Tari in 2015. In also supervised with Adrien Goëffon the Phd of Sara Tari defended in July 2019.