Chargé de recherche CNRS
Research topics
My work takes place at the interface between algebraic topology, in particular knot theory, and representation theory of quantum groups. More specifically, my interests cover:
- Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants,
- Categorification: Khovanov homology and categorified quantum groups,
- Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev 3-manifold invariants,
- Alexander polynomial and categorification,
- Skein modules and Jones-Kauffman algebras,
- braid theory.
Vita
- In 2025-2026, I am based in Canberra, at the IRL FAMSI.
- In 2022-2024, I had a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship. I visited the MSI, Australian National University, where I ran a learning seminar and a workshop.
- From 2015: chargé de recherches CNRS at IMAG, Montpellier.
- 2014-2015: Research Fellow at the Australian National University, working with Tony Licata and Scott Morrison,
- 2013: PhD from the Université Paris 7, where my thesis was conducted by Christian Blanchet and Catharina Stroppel.
Conferences and editorial work
I have joined the organizers teams for Winter Braids and Matemale Spring School. I have also recently joined the editorial board of the Winter Braids lecture notes.
SMF
I am a board member of the Société Mathématique de France. In particular, I am in charge of the Scientific board for the conference series États de la Recherche.
Projects
- The ANR project CaGeT, co-led with Anne-Laure Thiel, has started in January 2026. We will advertise several post-doctoral positions.
- I am a member of the ANR Project NASQI, led by Éric Vernier.
- Together with Adeline Barnaud, Anne-Céline Thuillet, Cécile Berthouly-Salazar and Delphine Renard, I am a member of the project GEOMAG. This project, funded by the CNRS MITI, investigates geometric approaches to crop diversity characterization.
- Together with Olivier Gimenez and Jessica Guérand, I run the IMPT-funded project DyGesTe in ecology. After a startup funding in 2024, we have just been awarded a PhD grant to start in the Fall 2025.
News
- I appear on Nathalie Ayi's podcast Tête à tête chercheuse(s). It's also available on Youtube or Spotify.