I am a permanent research scientist at IRSN Cadarache since 2024, in charge of studies on steel ageing using advanced simulation methods.

I use ideas from condensed matter physics, metallurgy and machine learning to analyze processes happening at the atomic scale🔬 in metals: defect formation, thermally activated process, phase transformations, materials evolution in environment, etc.

Using massively parallel computational methods such as molecular dynamics, I study solid state physics problems at different scales, using both classical and ML-based methods. An example is the simulation of plasticity in metals, which is mediated by dislocation motion –actually the subject of my thesis.

Previously, I was a post-doc at CEA Saclay-SRMP, where I developed efficient atomic descriptors for geometric and chemical analysis of atomic arrangements, as well as machine-learned force-fields, together with Mihai-Cosmin Marinica and Alexandra M. Goryaeva.

For my PhD, I worked with David Rodney (Univ. Lyon), Michel Perez (INSA) and Fabienne Ribeiro (IRSN) on the depinning of dislocations from interstitial solutes, introducing a new potential for Fe-C. I defended in Dec. 2021 at Université de Lyon–UCBL.