In short
Fluid mechanics and hydraulics professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Curriculum
I have both a PhD and an engineering degree granted by the École Centrale de Paris and Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INP Grenoble, Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute). Trained as a hydraulics engineer, I did my doctoral work on the rheology of granular flows in simple shearing. I Joined EPFL in 2003.
Current status
Since 2003, I have been a fluid-mechanics professor at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne and I am the director of the Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory. My major area of interest is the dynamics of particle flows in mountain, mainly the natural suspensions involved in geophysical flows such as avalanches, mudflows, and bedload transport. From 2004 on, I have been an associate editor of Water Resources Research.