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 page Laboratoire Navier (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech/IFSTTAR/CNRS (UMR 8205)), Marne-la-Vallée, France.
2008-2011
Director of Research and Strategy, external page Phimeca Engineering, Paris, France.
2001-2008
Research engineer in structural reliability, external page EDF R&D, Moret-sur-Loing, France.
2000
Post-doctoral fellow, external page University of California at Berkeley, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Education
2007
Download Habilitation à diriger des recherches (PDF, 8.6 MB), external page Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
1996-1999
Download PhD thesis (PDF, 4.5 MB), external page Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France.
1995-1996
One-year exchange program, external page Technical University of Munich, Germany.
1993-1995
Master's degree in civil engineering, external page Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France.
1990-1993
Master's of science, external page Ecole Polytechnique, 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 page Joint Committee on Structural Safety (JCSS).
Since 2005
Member of the Advisory Council of the external page International Forum on Engineering Decision Making (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 page International Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Association, (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 page International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR).
Since 2009
Member of the Scientific Committee of the external page GDR-MascotNUM.