Short Bio

Position and responsablities

Senior Researcher at CNRS/Directeur de Recherche CNRS, Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans (LAUM), UMR6613 CNRS, France, since Oct. 2022.
Resarch interest: Acoustic metamaterials and acoustic structured materials.

Leader of the team «Acoustic Materials»(one of the three research teams of the Laboratory LAUM) since Jan. 2022.
Chair of the Technical Committee «Acoustic Materials»of the European Acoustics Association (EAA) since Dec. 2020.
Elected member of the Physical, Underwater and Ultra-Sound Acoustics (GAPSUS) board of the French Acoustical Society (SFA) since 2021.

Previous position

2022 - 2009

Researcher at CNRS/Chargé de Recherche CNRS, Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans, UMR6613 CNRS, France.

Previous responsibilities

2022 - 2019	Member of ANR committee CES08 «Matériaux métalliques et inorganiques».
2021 - 2012	Elected member of Le Mans University «Commissions Consultatives d'Établissement» (CCE) 60-63.
2020 - 2017	Nominated INSIS (Institut des Sciences de l'Ingénierie et des Systèmes - CNRS) innovation representative for LAUM.
2020 - 2016	Chair of DENORMS Action (CA15125).
2016 - 2012	Elected member of the LAUM council.
2014 - 2011	Leader of the LAUM Research Group Acoustics and Mechanics of Porous Materials.

Past experiences (Post-doctoral fellowships)

Sept./April 2009	Institut d'Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN) $^{[1]}$ , UMR CNRS 8520 /Univ. Lille 1, France.
March/Jan. 2009	Laboratory of Acoustics and Thermal Physics (ATF) now Laboratory for Soft Matter and Biophysics (ZMB), KULeuven, Belgium.
Dec. 2008 - Oct. 2007	Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (L2S) $^{[2]}$ , UMR CNRS 8506/Supélec/Univ. Paris Sud 11, France.
Sept. 2007 - Oct. 2006	Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées (CMAP) $^{[3]}$ , UMR CNRS 7641/École Polytechnique, France.
Sept. 2006 - Oct. 2005	Laboratory of Acoustics and Thermal Physics (ATF), KULeuven, Belgium.

$^{[1]}$ ANR Project SUPREME -ANR-08-BLAN-0101-.
$^{[2]}$ System@tic Paris-Région Competitiveness Cluster, Usine Numérique project, On-Trac sub-project (12 months), and then direct funding from CEA-LIST (3 months).
$^{[3]}$ CNRS Post-doctoral fellow 2006-2007 SPM-24 "composite imaging".

Education

Nov. 2017	«Habibitation à Diriger des Recherches», Le Mans University.
	Dissertation: Acoustic wave propagation in lossy, structured and periodic media.
Sept. 2005	PhD in Mechanical Engineering (with honors), Université de la Méditerranée -Aix-Marseille II-.
	Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique (LMA), UPR CNRS 7051.
	Dissertation: Modeling of elastic waves inside a city generated by distant or nearby seismic sources.
	Advisors: A. Wirgin and C. Tsogka.
July 2002	M.S. (with honors), major in Acoustics, Université de la Méditerranée -Aix-Marseille II-.
Sept. 2002	Degree of Engineer (with highest honors), major in Marine Engineering, École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Marseille (ESIM - now École Centrale Marseille).