Activities

Responsibilities

  • 2026-2027 Co-coordinator (with Thomas Opitz) of the project LOST OXYGEN – LOw-cost STOchastic eXtreme Impact GENerators for analyzing climate-triggered worst-case events in agriculture and forest systems (Parcours interdisciplinaire CLIMAE–INRAE).

  • 2023–Now Representative of the permanent researchers at the Conseil d'unité MISTEA.

  • 2024–Now Representative at MISTEA for the computing cluster of Université de Montpellier.

Mentoring

PhD students

  • (March 2023 – March 2026) Caroline Cognot (UMR MIA Paris-Saclay & EDF) – Modélisation stochastique multisites de séries temporelles de variables météorologiques

  • (October 2023 – Ongoing) Yoann Cartier (École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées & LEESU) – Characterization of sources of microbiological contamination in rivers using statistical and inverse modeling

Internships

  • (May–Jun. 2026) Simon Paquier (Institut Agro Montpellier, 2nd year) – Development of the serious game platform for phenology of apples and grapes and climate risks

  • (Mar.–Aug. 2026) Arnaud Mabit (M2, Université d'Angers) – Évaluation des Générateurs stochastiques de météo pour les extrêmes climatiques

  • (Mar.–Aug. 2025) Ali Elhishi (M2, École polytechnique) – Modélisation des variables lacustres à l'aide d'équations différentielles neuronales améliorées par la physique

  • (Mar.–Sep. 2025) Arnaud Gonin (M2, Université d'Angers) – Générateurs stochastiques de météo pour évaluer l'impact du changement climatique sur les pommes et les vignes

  • (May–Aug. 2024) Robin Davenne (M1, Ense3) – PINNs for lake temperature modeling

  • (Apr.–Aug. 2024) Mathieu Le Séac'h (M2, Université de Montpellier) – NeuralODEs for lake surface temperature and oxygen modeling

  • (May–Aug. 2023) Lucie Attwood (M1, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) – Machine Learning for lake pollution forecast

Scientific Mediation & Popularization

  • 2015 Fête de la science – Nice (Université Côte d'Azur).

  • 2016 Ma Thèse en 180s – Nice (Université Côte d'Azur). Audience prize and 2nd jury's prize at the 3-minute thesis popularization contest.

  • 2021 Paroles de chercheuses et chercheurs – Lycée Jean Renoir (Bondy). Discussion in front of three classes of high school students about research, researchers and my work.

  • 2023 Osez la médiation scientifique ! – Montpellier (Genopolys).

  • 2024 Apprentis Chercheurs (INRAE). Les Maths à la rescousse des agriculteurs: Anticipation de la météo et optimisation du choix de culture – 10x3h for students in 3ème and 1ère. See the summary notebook (in French).

Hackathon

I participated in the organization of GenHack 2 and in the creation of the dataset and organization of GenHack 3. These two hackathons challenged students to build generative machine learning models for environmental applications. The dataset used in GenHack 3 was published on Recherche Data Gouv and is accessible at https://doi.org/10.57745/C3FNBY.

Other Activities

In 2026, I am scientific co-coordinator and developer of a serious game about phenology of apples and grapes and climate risks. The audience are students of the international Newclim consortium.

Academic Teaching

See the dedicated page.