Research activities : new instrumental and methodological developments in Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
Since 2020 : CNRS Research Engineer (IRHC) at CEMES-CNRS.
Since July 2018 : Director of the CNRS/Hitachi High-Technologies (HHT) Joint laboratory "HC-IUMi" (Hitachi-CNRS Infrastructure for Ultrafast Microscopy) located in CEMES-CNRS, which aims to develop the next generation of ultrafast coherent FE-TEM.
2016-2020 : CNRS Research Engineer (IR1) at CEMES-CNRS. Head of the Characterisation platform and TEM service. Member of the Electron Microscopy research group (I3EM).
2007-2016 : CNRS Research Engineer (IR2) at CEMES-CNRS. Head of the TEM service
2006 - 2007 : Post-doctoral position supported by the European ESTEEM project. Development of new holographic methods with elastic and inelastic electrons. Development of CHEF and EMCD experiments with a Cs-corrected microscope.
2003 - 2006 : PhD thesis at CEMES-CNRS (Centre d’Elaboration de Matériaux et d’Etudes Structurales-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) : Development of CBED and high resolution electron holography for strain measurements
1998 - 2003 : Engineering School INSA (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées) Toulouse. Speciality : Nanophysics
Some developments, a selective choice :
Awards :
2020: CNRS Cristal award
2019: Ernst Ruska prize of the German Microscopy Society (DGE)
2019: European Microscopy Society (EMS) 2018 outstanding paper award
2006: Pierre Favard Award of the French Microscopy Society (Sfmu)