Skills:

Physics: Quantitative measurements of fluorescence signals and related techniques (FRAP, FLIM, FRET), two-photon and confocal microscopies, instrumentation (design and realisation of experimental setup), experimental optics, theoretical modelling of biological systems.

Biology: Cell culture, transient transfections, fluorescent labeling, immunofluorescence, basic DNA cloning.

Computer science: MacOs, Windows, Unix,  programming (C, C++, C#, Java, Arduino), LabView, ImageJ, LaTeX, regular office tools, other softwares (data analysis, …).

Languages: French (native), English (daily practice of scientific english), Italian (good conversational skills), German (basic knowledge).

Education:

1997 – Magistère in Fundamental Physics (University Paris XI – Orsay) D.E.A. in Liquid Physics (5-year university degree)

2002 – PhD in Physics (University Paris XI – Orsay),
Supervisors: François Amblard, Jacques Prost
Lab. Physico-Chimie Curie, Institut Curie – CNRS, Paris (France)
Subject: Dynamics of brush border cytoskeletal proteins revealed by two-photon FRAP: experimental results and theoretical tools.

Work experience:

1995 – Lab. des Collisions Atomiques et Moléculaires (Orsay, France),
Study of the dissociation of small sodium aggregates induced by collision with helium atoms.

1996 – Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Pisa, Italy),
Characterization of mechanical filter properties from the superattenuator of the VIRGO project.

1997 – Lab. Physico-Chimie Curie (Institut Curie, Paris, France),
Functional integrals formalism of molecular motors motion.

2002 – PhD in Physics (Lab. Physico-Chimie Curie, Institut Curie, Paris)
Dynamics of brush border cytoskeletal proteins revealed by two-photon FRAP: experimental results and theoretical tools.

2005 – Postdoctoral fellow (IBL/ICF & Institut Curie)
Interactions between Rab proteins and their partners in live cells by two-photon FRET/FLIM.

Since Dec. 2005 – Position as CNRS Research Engineer at Institut Curie, Paris.