Curriculum Vitae

Dates Activities
2001-2005 Université Paris 11, France
École normale supérieure de Cachan, France
École normale supérieure, France
- Physics: Licence with Highest Honours, Master 1 with Highest Honours
- Theoretical Physics: Master 2 with Honours
- Mathematics: Licence with Honours
April 2003-July 2003 Department of Physics
University of Oxford, UK
Research internship
2004 Professeur agrégé de physique (national competitive teaching qualification), rank 26 / 170
Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, France
2005-2008 Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France
PhD Astrophysics and Theoretical Physics
co-supervised by R. Mohayaee, S. Colombi, R. B. Tully, J. Silk
2008-2011 Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Postdoctoral Research Associate
2010-2011 Department of Physics
The Johns Hopkins University, USA
Visiting Researcher
September 2011-April 2013 Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Waterloo, Canada
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
CITA National Fellow
Postdoctoral National Fellowship of the Government of Canada; held jointly with a Postdoctoral Associate position at the Perimeter Institute
May 2013-2016 Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France
CNRS Research Scientist (CR2)
2016-2023 Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France
CNRS Research Scientist (CR1, then CRCN)
Since 2023 Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France
CNRS Research Director

Grants and Awards

Dates Grant / Value
2025-2028 PI (IAP) Simons Foundation Collaboration Learning the Universe, renewal (606 k$)
2024 PI CNRS "IEA Manticore" (14,000 euros)
2021- PI CNES grant "GCEuclid", Galaxy Clustering for Euclid at IAP (129,980 euros cumulated, renewed annually)
2021-2025 PI (IAP) Simons Foundation Collaboration Learning the Universe (1.107 M$)
2019 PI DIM ACAV+, Région Île-de-France, "HENON" (80,000 euros)
2016-2022 PI ANR JCJC BIG4 (316,564 euros, ANR record)
2016 PI DIM-ACAV, Région Île-de-France, "ORIGIN" (75,000 euros)
2016 PI PNCG grant "Mass and velocity field of the Local Universe" (5,300 euros)
2015 PI CNRS multi-disciplinary exploratory project (Défi Inphyniti/MITI), "BIG4" (6,000 euros)
2015 PI PNCG grant "Mass and velocity field of the Local Universe" (3,600 euros)

Compute time allocations

Dates Allocation
2025 PI IDRIS/GENCI allocation, "Cosmological GPU inference with BORG" (12,000 GPU-hours)
2025 PI GENCI allocation, "Computing the digital twin of the nearby Universe" (20 million core-hours)
2024 PI GENCI allocation, Manticore special Rome/SKL session (45 million core-hours)
2024 PI GENCI allocation, "Computing the digital twin of the nearby Universe" (15.5 million core-hours)
2021 PI GENCI/TGCC allocation, "Multimessenger Simulation of the Local Universe" (2.5 million core-hours)
2015 Co-PI GENCI allocation (6 million core-hours)

Responsabilities

Dates Function
January 2026- Technology transfer correspondent for Institut CNRS Terre & Univers
2024- CNRS Open Science correspondent for the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
2022- Co-lead of the Tools Working Group for GDR CoPhy
2022-2026 Member of the steering committee of GDR CoPhy
2021- Member of Programme National Cosmologie et Galaxies
  Co-organizer of the workshops and colloquia of Action Dark Energy, then of GDR CoPhy
  Elected member of the editorial board of the Aquila Consortium

Scientific activities

  • Reviewer for PRL, PRD, A&A, MNRAS, ApJ, JCAP, Nature Astronomy, OJA, A&C, JOSS
  • Proposal reviewer for ISF, ERC, STFC/UKRI, PNCG

Outreach

Participation to several open-door events:

  • cosmology workshop at the "Fête de la science" at the IAP over several years, most recently in 2025 (website)
  • Nuit de l'IAP 2022 (website)
  • presentation at Pint of Science 2019
  • article in The Conversation on why cosmic voids are worth studying
  • article in The Conversation on simulating the Universe on a mobile phone (author profile)
  • radio interview on France Culture, "La science, CQFD" (podcast)
  • CNRS INSU news release on the resolution of the Andromeda anomaly