CV

Main professional experiences

• Since December 2023: Junior Professor Chair at ENS Rennes and Université de Rennes.

• 2015 - 2023: Associate professor at Université Côte d’Azur.

  • 2021-2023 : invited researcher within the Catchment Hydrology research group of INRAE (2 years).
  • 2019 : invited teacher at Université d’État d’Haïti (2 weeks).
  • 2018 : invited researcher at INRS-ETE (Québec, Canada) (2 months)
  • 2017 : invited researcher within the Centre d’Expertise Hydrique du Québec (Québec, Canada) (2 months).

• 2014 - 2015: Postdoc at ETS within the EC3 research group and Ouranos (Montréal, Canada), advised by Pr. François Brissette. 10 months.

• 2013 - 2014: Postdoc at Irstea - now INRAE - (Antony, France), within the Catchment Hydrology research group, advised by Dr. Vazken Andréassian. 1 year.

• 2010 - 2013: PhD. thesis in hydrology, at Electricité de France - R&D (Chatou, France) and at the UMR Sisyphe - now Métis (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France), 3 years. Directed by Pr. Pierre Ribstein and advised by Dr. Pietro Bernardara.

  • 2012: 1-month stay at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Halle (Saale, Germany), co-advised by Pr. Ralf Merz.
  • 2011: 4-month stay at BC HYDRO (British Columbia electric utility) in Vancouver (Canada), co-advised by Dr. Zoran Mićović.

• 2010: Master thesis in hydrology, at the UMR Sisyphe - now Métis (UPMC, Paris, France) (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France), 8 months. Advised by Dr. Ludovic Oudin.

Higher education

• 2013: PhD. in Hydrology. Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France).
• 2010: MSc in Hydrology and Hydrogeology. Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France).
• 2008: Bachelor degree in Geology. Université de Cergy-Pontoise (Cergy-Pontoise, France).

Award and scolarship

• 2014: Winner of the CNFGG PhD thesis award, Hydrological Sciences section (CNFGG: French national comity of geodesy and geophysics).

• 2012: EGU Outstanding Student Poster Award of the “Climate: Past, Present, Future (CL)” division, for a poster presentation.

• 2012: Short Term Scientific Mission allowed by FloodFreq for a 3-week mission at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Halle (Saale, Germany).

Teaching

• Lectures of around 312 hours / year (average calculated over 6 academic years since 2015) within the water engineering department of Polytech Nice Sophia.

• Teaching topics: hydrology, statistics, modeling, hydrometry, field trips, programming (mainly using R), database, GIS, professional communication.

• Design of lectures and tutorials, contribution to the development of airGRteaching, an open-source R package devoted to teach hydrological modeling with the GR rainfall-runoff models.

Administrative responsabilities

• 2018-2021: head of the Water Engineering department of Polytech Nice Sophia (~170 students per year).

• 2015-2018: head teacher of the 3th year engineer students (~ 35 students per year).

Research activities

• Scientific communications: 13 peer-reviewed articles (see dedicated webpage) and more than 40 conference communications, 3 of which won awards (see dedicated webpage).

• Session convening:

  • RST (2021): co-convener of the Hydrogeology session (number T17.1) of the 27th Réunion des Sciences de la Terre (RST), organized at Lyon (France) in November 2021.
  • AISH (2022): convener of the workshop entitled When are hydrological data informative (or not)? Testing for information content in the face of sources of uncertainty of the 21th Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS 2022) to be held in Montpellier (France) in June 2022.

• Peer-review activities: more than 20 reviews for different journals (e.g. Journal of Hydrology, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences), see my publons profil.

• Supervision: see dedicated webpage.

• Jurys de thèse :

  • Jean ODRY (2017), Aix-Marseille Université.
  • Alexandre DEVERS (2019), Université Grenobles Alpes.
  • Mounir MAHDADE (2022), Sorbonne Université.
  • Gérardson MATHIEU (2022), UC Louvain.

• Comités de suivi de thèse :

  • Mohamed SAADI, Sorbonne Université.
  • Yoann DROUILLAS, Université Côte d’Azur.
  • Raphaël CHOCHON, Université Côte d’Azur.
  • Garance TANGUY, Université de Montpellier.

• Membre du conseil scientifique du projet IDEX UCA EduMed piloté par le service éducation de Géoazur.