Curriculum vitae
Professional experience
Since Aug. 2012
Professor of Risk, Safety and Uncertainty Quantification, Institute of Structural Engineering, ETH Zurich.
2011-2012
Senior researcher (directeur de recherche), external pageLaboratoire Naviercall_made (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech/IFSTTAR/CNRS (UMR 8205)), Marne-la-Vallée, France.
2008-2011
Director of Research and Strategy, external pagePhimeca Engineeringcall_made, Paris, France.
2001-2008
Research engineer in structural reliability, external pageEDF R&Dcall_made, Moret-sur-Loing, France.
2000
Post-doctoral fellow, external pageUniversity of California at Berkeleycall_made, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Education
2007
DownloadHabilitation à diriger des recherches (PDF, 8.6 MB)vertical_align_bottom, external pageUniversité Blaise Pascalcall_made, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
1996-1999
DownloadPhD thesis (PDF, 4.5 MB)vertical_align_bottom, external pageEcole Nationale des Ponts et Chausséescall_made, Paris, France.
1995-1996
One-year exchange program, external pageTechnical University of Munichcall_made, Germany.
1993-1995
Master's degree in civil engineering, external pageEcole Nationale des Ponts et Chausséescall_made, Paris, France.
1990-1993
Master's of science, external pageEcole Polytechniquecall_made, Paris, France
Teaching
2010-2011
Part-time lecturer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Marne-la-Vallée. Uncertainty quantification in engineering mechanics.
1998-2012
Part-time lecturer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Marne-la-Vallée. Structural mechanics.
2004-2012
Part-time lecturer, Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci, Paris la Défense. Probabilistic engineering mechanics and structural reliability.
Awards and honors
2000
Best Ph.D thesis of Year 1999 at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, awarded by the Foundation of the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.
2003
SMIRT Junior Award awarded by the International Association for Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (IASMIRT) to the best paper of the SMIRT17 Conference (Prag) by a young researcher.
2005
Jean Mandel Prize. National distinction awarded by the Ecole des Mines ParisTech and the Association Française de Mécanique (AFM) every second year to a young researcher in mechanics under 35 for a substantial contribution in an original field of mechanics.
Since 2004
Member of the external pageJoint Committee on Structural Safetycall_made (JCSS).
Since 2005
Member of the Advisory Council of the external pageInternational Forum on Engineering Decision Makingcall_made (IFED).
Since 2005
Member of the Working Group on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP WG 7.5).
Since 2007
Member of the Board of Directors of the external pageInternational Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Associationcall_made, (CERRA), which organizes the International Conferences on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP).
Since 2008
Member of the Technical Committee TC3 – Structural Reliability and Optimization of the external pageInternational Association for Structural Safety and Reliabilitycall_made (IASSAR).
Since 2009
Member of the Scientific Committee of the external pageGDR-MascotNUMcall_made.