Education :
- 2016 HDR – Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (degree of Habilitation to Supervise Research), Univ. Montpellier
- 2002-2006 Doctorate PhD in Mechanics of Wood, Univ. Montpellier 2
- 2000-2001 DEA (MSc) in Wood Science, ENGREF (national school of forestry), Nancy
- 1998-2000 Learning to make musical instruments (guitars, lutes), France and UK
- 1998 Maîtrise (4 years degree) in Plant Physiology, Univ. Montpellier 2
- 1994-1996 DEUG in Life Science and Biochemistry, Home-Education and UM2
- 1994 Baccalaureate in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Homeschooled
- 1980-1995 Homeschooled in a mountain of the Cévennes (Southern France)
Titles of degrees’ Theses:
- HDR : Towards an « ethno-bio-mechanical » vision of wood (2016)
- PhD : Diversity of woods used or usable in musical instruments making (2006)
- MSc : Properties of woods in instrument-making – Application to the search for alternative species (2001)
- Maîtrise: Physiological aspects of the structure-properties relationship in a lutherie wood (1998) / Condensed tannins in the imbibition of a Legume seed (1997)
- DEUG : Biological and biochemical processes to neutralize toxical wastes (1995)
Positions Held :
- Since 2013: CNRS Researcher, at LMGC, Wood Team, Montpellier
- 2011-2012: Post-Doc Researcher/project coordinator at EMPA, Switzerland (Marie-Curie Fellowship)
- 2011: Research Engineer at LMGC, CNRS, Montpellier, France
- 2010: Post-Doc Researcher at LERFoB, INRA, Nancy, France
- 2009: short-term research contracts with CIRAD-Montpellier, INRA-Nancy, and professionnal companies or organisms
- 2006-2008: Post-Doc Researcher at Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan (JSPS Fellowship)
- 2002-2006: PhD Student/researcher at LMGC, Montpellier (CNRS Fellowship)
- 2002: Research Engineer at CIRAD, Montpellier, France
- … Before… : Student, with punctual informal hirings as musician or as furniture restorer