Education and professional experience

• Since 2017: CNRS research associate in the Laboratoire des Biomolécules UMR7203 at the ENS chemistry department
• 2015 – 2016: Assistant Professor (ATER) at University Paris Descartes
• 2013 – 2015: Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Pr. Marcus Wilhelmsson at Chalmers University (Gothenburg, Sweden)
• 2012: PhD in Chemistry from University Paris Sud under the supervision of Dr. Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou and Dr. Florence Mahuteau-Betzer at Institut Curie
• 2008: MSc and chemical engineering degree from Chimie Paristech

Research projects

My research aims at developing new fluorescent probes as tools to study biological processes. To that end, we develop functional probes whose emission can be specifically triggered by biological analytes or proteins. The research work combines organic synthesis, biochemistry (interaction studies) and biophysics (optical spectroscopies, microscopy).

• Hybrid chemogenetic probes and sensors (ANR JCJC DIPimaging 2019-2022)
• Targeted fluorescent lipid mircroparticles for probing phagocytosis (in collaboration with Jean-Maurice Mallet (LBM), Jacques Fattaccioli (PASTEUR lab UMR8640) and Florence Niedergang (Institut Cochin))

Supervised students and post-doctoral researchers

PhD candidates

Clara Bonin (since Oct. 2024) in co-supervision with Pr. Arnaud Gautier Manon Wittwer (since Sept. 2023) Master and bachelor students Giogia Rosati (Master Exchange student from Imperial College London) Lara Kiang (ERASMUS Master student from Trinity College Dublin) alumni

Postdocs

Dr. Carolina Chieffo (Postdoc; Jan. 2023- Aug. 2024) now assistant professor at Sorbonne Université. Dr. Sylvestre Bachollet (postdoc ANR ; Dec. 2018- May 2021) now « chargé de recherche » (researcher) CNRS in the group of Pr. A. Gautier. PhD candidates Justine Coïs (PhD student ; 2021-2024) in co-supervision with V. Vialou (NPS, UMR8246) now second-grade teacher Sophie Michelis (PhD student ; 2021-2024) in co-supervision with J-M Mallet (LBM) Bachelor and Master students Eduardo Sanchez Abarca (L3 intern, May-July 2024) Manon Wittwer (M2 intern ENS, Feb. – June 2023) Louis Sanchez (M2 intern, Feb. – June 2022) Yuriy Shpinov (M2 intern, February – June 2020) Nadjib Khene (M1 intern, April – July 2019)