Career path

2001: Ph.D. in Physical/Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Bordeaux, France (Prof. J.-C. Rayez and Dr. T. Stoecklin, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires de Bordeaux )
Thesis title : "Theoretical contributions to the study of triatomic reactions"
2002: Post-doc at the University of Queensland, Australia (Prof. S. Smith, Centre for Computational Molecular Science) :
- Development of new quantum scattering methodologies applied to small molecules
2003: Associate Professor, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseilles, France

Teachings

• Mathematics for chemists, physicists and engineers (1st year BSc, Portail Marie-Curie)
• Chemical bonding and molecular symmetries for chemists (2nd-year BSc)
• Groups and molecular symmetries for physicists and chemists (2nd-year BSc)
• Introduction to theoretical chemistry (1st-year MSc)

Research themes

• Aromaticity :
  • Study of the concept of aromaticity and associated descriptors, e.g topological (see book chapter in Applications of Topological Methods in Molecular Chemistry) 
  • Mesomery : description of delocalized Hückel wave function in terms of resonant Lewis structures (see HuLiS java applet)
  • Magnetic indices of aromaticity in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
• Reactivity of organic compounds at low temperature in rare gas matrices
• Highly excited electronic states of small molecules
• Fitting of ab initio potential energy surfaces

Keywords  : Theoretical and computational chemistry, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Aromaticity, Chirality, Excited states