Background
From general relativity to the queues of an emergency department. The path is less winding than it looks.
I started in theoretical physics: an undergraduate and master's physics degree at Paris-Saclay in Orsay, then the theoretical and mathematical physics master's at ENS Ulm. My first research internships were on gravitational waves at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris and on black hole hydrodynamics at the University of Nottingham — systems you can neither question nor perturb, and which you therefore only understand by modelling them.
I then moved towards applied mathematics: a master's in PDEs and probability at Bordeaux, focused on stochastic modelling, analysis and spectral theory, with internships on differential operators and on fibre bundles applied to visual perception.
An emergency department is not that far away. It is a constrained dynamical system, with flows, bottlenecks, threshold effects and a saturation that propagates upstream. Bertrand Maury, who co-supervises my thesis, comes from the mathematical modelling of crowd motion himself. The difference is that here the trajectories are people, the data are dirty, and a modelling error is paid in hours spent waiting on a trolley.
Education
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2022–2026
PhD in Public Health — health informatics track
University of Bordeaux · Inserm U1219
Supervisors: Emmanuel Lagarde · Bertrand Maury (Paris-Saclay)
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2018–2020
MSc in Mathematics — PDEs and probability
University of Bordeaux
With distinction · stochastic modelling, analysis, spectral theory
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2016–2017
MSc Theoretical Physics — ICFP
École normale supérieure — PSL, Ulm
International Centre for Fundamental Physics
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2014–2017
Magistère in Fundamental Physics
Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay
Taught in English · TOEIC 955
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2012–2014
Preparatory classes MPSI / MP
Lycée Clemenceau, Nantes
Experience
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2021–2022
Research engineer
University of Bordeaux · Inserm U1219
CNN and Mask R-CNN for pedestrian crossing safety; server administration
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2020
Master's internship — fibre bundles and visual perception
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux
Supervisor: Edoardo Provenzi
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2019–2020
Mathematics and physics tutor
Centre pédagogique de Talence
Private tuition, secondary and university level
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2019
Master's internship — differential operators
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux
Supervisor: Laurent Michel
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2015–2017
Research internships in physics
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris · University of Nottingham · IAS Orsay
Gravitational waves, black hole hydrodynamics, organic residue synthesis
Skills
Programming
- Python
- C / C++
- R
- MATLAB
- Mathematica
- Bash
- LaTeX
- Dart / Flutter
Tools and libraries
- PyTorch
- SimPy
- scikit-learn
- XGBoost
- pandas
- NumPy
- Git
- Linux
Modelling
- Discrete-event simulation
- Queueing theory
- Differential equations
- Time series
- Optimal transport
Machine learning
- Transformers
- CNN / Mask R-CNN
- Language models
- Data cleaning
Languages
- French (native)
- English (TOEIC 955)
- Spanish (basic)
- Japanese (beginner)
Academic involvement
- 2024Co-organiser of the webinar “AI in the field of care: contributions and limits”
- 2024Supervision of a master's project, Statistical and Stochastic Modelling (University of Bordeaux)
- 2024Video contribution for IRCAI (UNESCO)
- 2023Quiz winner at the 2nd Bordeaux Population Health Young Researchers' Day