RESEARCH INTERESTS
Natural satellites --- Mercury --- Rotational dynamics --- Planetary geophysics --- Chaos --- Orbital dynamics --- Resonances --- Tides --- Comets --- TNO
EMPLOYMENT
- Since 2018: Associate Professor at the University of Franche-Comté and Institute UTINAM, Besançon, France
- 2006 - 2018: Research scientist at the University of Namur, Belgium
Fundings:
- 2017 - 2018: BELgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO).
Modelisation of the rotational dynamics of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter, in the framework of the
JUICE mission
- 2015 - 2017: University of Namur
- 2010 - 2014: Chargé de Recherches F.R.S.-FNRS
- 2007 - 2010: BELgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO).
Modelisation of the rotational dynamics of Mercury in the framework of the MORE experiment (radio-science)
of Bepi-Colombo
- 2006 - 2007: University of Namur
- 2005 - 2006: Lecturer (ATER) at the University of Lille, France
- 2002 - 2005: PhD candidate at Paris Observatory, France
- 2001: Internship (5 months) at BNP Paribas, Paris, France. Study and tests of softwares of speaker verification for banking applications
FORMATION
LANGUAGES
- French: Native speaker
- English: Fluent
- German: Proficient
- Italian: Intermediate
- Spanish: Intermediate
RESEARCH VISITS
- Fall 2013: University of California at Santa Cruz, USA (3 months), collaboration with F. Nimmo
- May 2013: UNESP, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil (2 weeks), collaboration with T. Yokoyama
- Fall 2012: University of California at Santa Cruz, USA (3 months), collaboration with F. Nimmo
- Winter 2009: University of Roma 2 Tor Vergata, Italy (1 month), collaboration with A. Celletti
- Spring 2006: Jinan University, Guangzhou, PR China (3 months), collaboration with Q.Y. Peng
TEACHING AND MENTORING
- Since 2018: Teaching, as an associate professor, at the department of physics of the University of Franche-Comté
- Co-advisor of the PhD thesis of S.E.Anderson (defended in October 2022 at the University of Franche-Comté)
- Co-advisor of the PhD thesis of E.Verheylewegen (defended in April 2014 at the University of Namur)
- 2008 - 2018: Teaching of Fluid mechanics, Celestial mechanics and Qualitative theory of dynamical systems at the University of Namur
- 2005 - 2006: Lecturer at the University of Lille. Teaching of Mathematics and Astronomy.
- 2003 - 2005: Some teaching of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at the Ecole Centrale de Lille and the University of Lille, as a PhD candidate
PUBLICATIONS
Check out the full list here.
SERVICES
- 2020-2022: Member of the DDA Brouwer Award Committee (Chair in 2022)
- Since 2019: Associate Editor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Memberships: International Astronomical Union (Divisions A and F), American Astronomical Society (DDA and DPS), American Geophysical Union
- 2018-2021: Secretary of IAU Division A (Fundamental Astronomy)
- 2014-2017: Member (Chair in 2016-2017) of the Nominating Committee of the DDA
- July 2014: Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the IAU Symposium Complex Planetary Systems, Namur, Belgium
- Reviewer for: Science, Icarus, Planetary and Space Science, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical
Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Earth Moon and
Planets, Advances in Space Research, The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,
Astronomy and Space Science, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Geosciences, Earth-Science Reviews
- NASA grant reviewing: Panelist for PG&G and EW, External reviewer for PG&G and OPR
- External reviewer for the DFG (German Research Agency)
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