Since 2023
Assistant Professor in Digital Twinning for Quantum Technologies
University of Birmingham (UoB) - School of Physics and Astronomy / School of Engineering
2019 – 2023
Research Fellow Lead on Theory and Modelling for Quantum Sensing
University of Birmingham (UoB) - UK National Quantum Technology Hub for Sensing and Timing
2017 – 2019
PRESTIGE fellow (EU/Campus France)
Université de Lille (France) – Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, atomes et molécules (PhLAM)
2015 – 2017
Post-doctoral research associate
Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) – Group of Complex Systems and Statistical Mechanics
2025
Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCert) – with “distinction”
2024
Chartered Physicist (CPhys) from the Institute of Physics (IOP)
2015
French “Qualification” obtained (renewed in 2020)
2011 – 2014
PhD Thesis in Quantum Physics - Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’optique, Universite Paris 11 (France)
Advisor: Laurent Sanchez-Palencia - Mention très honorable (highest distinction)
2011
MSc. in quantum physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (France)
Grade A (highest) - ranked 2nd/24
2010
BSc. in physics and Engineering diploma, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (France)
Grade A (highest) - ranked 3rd/~500
2024-2028
Space-based quantum sensing for maritime applications (PI)
EPSRC iCASE with Thales UK
EPSRC (£98k) – Thales UK (£35k)
2024-2026
MOQUA: Modelling quantum sensors for PNT applications (co-I)
European Space Agency (£150k)
GMV, University of Birmingham
2024-2029
QuSIT: UK Quantum Hub for Sensing Imaging and Timing (co-I)
EPSRC (£24.4m)
2024-2025
AION PDRA/ECR Call (co-I)
STFC (£298k)
2022-2023
Alternative navigation with quantum gravity gradiometry (Co-I & project lead)
DSTL, DASA Open Innovation call (£142k)
University of Birmingham, MBDA
2022-2024
Enhancing reliability under rotation for gravity gradiometry (Co-I)
DSTL, DASA Open Innovation call (£137k)
2020-2022
Q-ACE project (Co-I & technical lead)
UK Space Agency (~£500k - University of Birmingham: £191k)
University of Birmingham, Thales Alenia Space, Teledyne-e2v, MetOffice
2020-2025
AION project (Task lead and named PDRA)
UKRI-STFC (£7.1M – UoB: £2.2m)
University of Birmingham, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, King's College London, University of Liverpool, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
2019-2024
Quantum Technology Hub for Sensing and Timing (named PDRA)
EPSRC (£90m – UoB: 28.7m)
2017-2029
PRESTIGE individual fellowship (PI)
European Union/Campus France (€30k)
2011-2014
Research grant AMX (PI)
French Ministry of Research (€60k)
2025
Keynote speaker invitation at the 7th Quantum Technology Conference, Heraklion (Greece)
2023
Invited Tutor at the Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics Winter School, Cambridge (UK)
2023
Invited Official Nominator for the VinFuture Prize
2022
Invited by Contemporary Physics and its editor Peter Knight to write a commissioned review paper on quantum gravity sensing
2016
Finalist of the Belgian Physical Society “Young Speaker Contest”
2015
“Young researcher prize 2015” from the IFRAF (Institut de Recherche Francillien sur les Atomes Froids) & GdR Atomes Froids (French cold atom network)
2004
Third national prize at the French Olympiads in mathematics
Member of the Editorial Board for Advances in Physics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Particle Physics
Member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College and the EPSRC Talent Peer Review College
Independent expert in Quantum Technologies for the European Commission
Member of the WP leaders board in the UKRI STFC AION project
Reviewer for peer-reviewed journals including Europhysics Journals, Nature Partner Journals, Optics and Laser Technology, AIP Advances