Academic Appointments

Current Post

• Royal Society University Research Fellow
  held at the School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent (Summer 2016-present)
• Visitor
  of the TCM group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (Summer 2016-present)

Employment History

• Royal Society University Research Fellow / Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate
  a PI position held at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (Fall 2013-Spring 2016)
• Leverhulme Early Career Fellow / Postdoctoral Research Associate
  a junior PI position held at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (Fall 2011-Fall 2013)
• Research Fellow
  a junior PI position at Trinity Hall Cambridge (Fall 2008-Fall 2011)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate
  working in the group of Prof. Nigel Cooper at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (Fall 2006-Fall 2008)

Education

Doctoral Education

• PhD in Physics
  Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, University Paris XI (Fall 2003-Fall 2006)
  My thesis "Dimensional Reduction in Condensed Matter Physics" was supervised by Dr Stéphane Ouvry, and the work was partially undertaken with Steven H. Simon during a visit to the Bell Laboratories. My thesis is available for download on Thèses En Ligne /(TEL).

Master's Degree

• Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA), Theoretical Physics
  Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, France (July 2003)

Undergraduate Education

• Maîtrise de Physique Théorique
  Université François Rabelais, Tours, France (July 2002)
• Vordiplom (German undergraduate diploma) in physics and in mechanical engineering
  Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (October 1999-September 2001)

Research Funding

Principal Investigator Awards

• Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2013)
  A prestigious UK five-year fellowship award by The Royal Society.
  
  
• Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2011)
  A competitive UK fellowship awarded for three years by the Leverhulme Trust.
  
  
• Trinity Hall Junior Research Fellowship (2008)
  A highly competitive fellowship awarded for three years by Trinity Hall Cambridge.
  
  

Funding in support of Collaborations

• ICAM Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008), supporting a collaboration with Prof. V. Gurarie (CU Boulder) and Prof. N. R. Cooper (Cambridge), awarded by the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM).