Current position: Principal Investigator at Craniofacial Growth and Form lab, Imagine Institute
Professional address: Laboratoire Forme et Croissance du Crâne
Bâtiment Lavoisier, 1er étage, Bureau 124
Hôpital Universitaire Necker - Enfants Malades
149 rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris
Scientific career
2024 - present: Principal Investigator at Craniofacial Growth and Form lab, Imagine Institute.
2024 - present: Post-doc in Applied mathematics at Imagine Institute. Project funded by the PEPR MathVives.
2021 - 2024: Post-doc in Medical research and Biomechanics at Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades (Paris), in the research group Craniofacial Growth and Form created by Pr. Roman Hossein KHONSARI. Project funded by Mairie de Paris - Dispositif Emergence(s).
Education
2017 - 2020: PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris), under the supervision of Dr Anthony HERREL (CNRS) and Pr Michael FAGAN (University of Hull, UK). Project funded by Sorbonne Universités.
2015 - 2017: MSc in Systematics, Evolution and Paleontology at Université Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris).
2012 - 2015: BSc in Organismal Biology and Ecology at Université Paris-Sud XI (Orsay).
Outreach & Responsibilities
- PhD jury
Alice PREVOST (2025, Invited Member): “Méthodologie des reconstructions mandibulaires par lambeau libre de fibula : Considérations cliniques, techniques et biomécaniques" (Toulouse Paul Sabatier University, supervised by Pascal SWIDER and Frédéric LAUWERS)
Hanna LIF (2025, Invited Member): “Characterization of unicoronal synostosis for improved surgical outcomes” (Uppsala University, supervised by Daniel Nowinski, Per Enblad, and Eva-Lena Stattin).
- Peer review (10 journals)
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Evolution
Integrative and Comparative Biology
Journal of Morphology
Journal of Zoology
Mammalian Biology
Oecologia
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
Primates
Zoology
- Grants (~875 k€)
Major grants:
PhD grant (Co-PI, Programme d’Impulsion Chirurgie du futur, INSERM, 2025) : 140 k€
Mécénat Princesse Grace de Monaco (2024) : 500 k€
Post-doc grant (IMOCEP project within PEPR Math-Vives, 2024): 120 k€
PhD grant (Sorbonne Universités. 2017): 100 k€
Minor grants:
DMU COLTE Neurochirurgie Necker Enfants Malades (2023): 3.500 €
Soutien à la formation (Filière TETECOU. 2023): 2.500 €
Travelling Fellowship (Filière TETECOU. 2022): 2.500 €
DMU COLTE Neurochirurgie Necker Enfants Malades (2021): 3.500 €
Transhumance Travel Grant (MNHN Doctoral School. Paris. 2020): 1.355 €
Travelling Fellowship (The Company of Biologists, JEBTF1911294. 2020): 2.860 €
Travel Grant (Société des Amis du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle et du Jardin des Plantes. 2020): 900 €
Gans Collections Grant (Gans Collections and Charitable Fund. 2019): 450 €
Transhumance Travel Grant (MNHN Doctoral School. Paris. 2018): 1.250 €
- Awards
2022 : Solemn Scientific Award - Chancellery of the Universities of Paris
2014 : Best Presentation Award of the Idea Sunrise Symposium, CRI, Paris
- Responsibilities
2023 – present: Technical leader of the ERN CRANIO “3D Imaging group”, aiming at standardizing the use of 3D data (photogrammetry, CT, MRI, Ultrasounds) and shape analysis in the clinical practice throughout the European Reference Network CRANIO
2022 – 2024: Scientific coordinator of the Integrated Care and Research Program (iCARP) at Imagine, the Institute of Genetic Rare Diseases (Paris)
2023: Organization of a Symposium at the International Congress for Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM), Cairns, Australia (July 2023): “Development, genetics, biomechanics, and evolution of the spine in vertebrates”
2023: Invited editor of a special issue on Spine in the Journal of Morphology (EIC: Matthias Starck)
2018 – 2019: Jury member for the allocation of doctoral scholarships by the ED227 Doctoral School
2018: Organization board of the Young Natural History Scientists Meeting (MNHN, Paris)
2017 – 2019: Elected PhD students’ representative to the ED227 Doctoral School