firefox
I studied physics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. My Ph.D. thesis was accomplished under the guidance of Prof. Pierre Gaspard in the field of nonequilibrium statistical thermodynamics. Therein I explored the dissipation and transport properties of nanoscopic systems. I did a postdoc in the laboratory of Prof. Xiao-Jing Wang at Yale University where I investigated neural computation and memory in cortical circuits.



  Research Interest

  • Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
  • Statistical Physics and Stochastic Processes
  • Quantum Mechanics and Nanosciences
  • Computational Neuroscience

  Education

  • Université Libre de Bruxelles, Ph.D. in Physics (Advisor: P Gaspard)  (2004-2008)
    ''Nonequilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale"
  • Université Libre de Bruxelles, M.Sc. in Physics  (2002-2004)
    "Study of the fluctuation theorem in nonequilibrium processes"
  • Université Libre de Bruxelles, B.Sc. in Physics & Mathematics  (2000-2002)

 Professional Experience

  • Université Libre de Bruxelles,  Postdoctoral Fellow  (2010 - present)
  • Yale University,  Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Neurobiology  (2008-2010)

 Awards & Fellowships

  • Postdoctoral Researcher of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique  (2008-2011)
  • Research Fellow of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique  (2004-2008)
  • Neuron Poster Prize for Neurobiology of Cognition GRC, 2010
  • Ilya Prigogine Prize of Thermodynamics, 2009
  • Prize "Rayonnement Interational de l'ULB", 2008
  • Prize of the Belgian Physical Society for the best master thesis, 2005
  • Medal of the ULB for outstanding academic results during the four diploma years, 2004
  • Honorary Diploma for outstanding academic results in the final year, ULB, 2004
  • Fleurice Mercier Prize for the 2nd year in Sciences, 2002

 Professional Activities

  • Referee services: Phys. Rev. Lett., Europhys. Lett., Phys. Rev. E, Biophys. Chem.,
      Physica A, J. Phys. A, J. Stat. Mech., J. Chem. Phys., Mol. Phys., Phys. Rev. B, Entropy,
      J. Stat. Phys., Proc. Royal Soc. B, Neural Computation, Chaos.
  • Scientific Personnel Delegate at the ULB's Physics Department (2007-2008)


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