Born on April the 20th,  1968 in Ste Foy-lès-Lyon (near Lyon) , FRANCE.

Married, 3 children.
Full professor, University Bordeaux 1, engineering school MATMECA

Successive appointments:

September 1988: student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon.
PhD thesis:  "Cauchy problem and smoothing effects for dispersive nonlinear partial differential equations". PhD adviser: Jean-Michel Ghidaglia at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan.
October 1994: I got a CNRS position as Chargé de Recherches in Bordeaux.
December 17th,  1996: Habilitation à diriger des recherches, University Bordeaux 1.
September 1997: Full professor position at the university of Bordeaux 1.
September 2005: Elected as junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

Administration and committees.
Committees:
95-02: Member of the scientific committee of the Applied maths lab of Bordeaux (MAB).
95-06: Member of the scientific committee of the Mathematics and Computer Science
division of the University of Bordeaux 1.
96-: Member of the scientific committee of the Mathematics Institute of Bordeaux.
98-: Member of the hiring committee for applied mathematics in Bordeaux.
02-06: Member of the scientific committee of the university of Bordeaux .
02-06: Administration board of the engineering school MATMECA.
07-: Member of the hiring committee for mathematics in Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan.
06: Director of the Applied Mathematics department of Bordeaux.
07-11: Responsible of the Applied mathematics team ( 60 permanent researchers) of the Institute of Mathematics of Bordeaux.

Teaching charges
September 98-02 In charge of the MASTER of Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing.
03-05 In charge of the graduate school of Mathematics and Computer Science. Roughly 150 graduate students.

National charge:
98-: Scientific expert for the Rhône-Alpes district.
99-: Scientific expert for the ministry of research.
01-04: Member of the hiring committee in applied mathematics of the universities of Lyon 1 and Pau.
01- Member of the editorial board of the series of books  "Mathématiques et Applications", edited by Springer and the SMAI (french Society for Industrial and Applied math), 40 books have already
been published.
02-04: Administration board of SMAI (Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles).
04-08: Member of the evaluation and hiring committees for mathematics of the CNRS.




PhD students.
Christophe Besse, September1995- february 1998: (co-adviser: C.-H. Bruneau ) "Numerical analysis of the Davey-Stewartson systems". Christophe Besse is now professor at the University of Lille 1.

Walid Ben Youssef,  September 1996-January 2000, "Korteweg-de Vries-type systems: numerical computations of the solutions and derivation from quasi-linear hyperbolic systems".

Vincent Torri, September 1998- July 2003:   "PDE systems occurring in Chemistry and Optics", V. Torri is now Maître de conférences at Evry Univsersity.

Karen Barrailh-Laurioux, September 1999- september 2002: (Co-advisors: R. Abgrall, G. Gallice) "Modelization and computations of laser pulses with large spectrum". Thesis in collaboration with the  CEA (french nuclear agency) .

Benjamin Texier, September 2000- july 2003   "Geometrical optics and Plasma Physics.  He is now Maître de Conférence at University Paris 7.

Géraldine Ebrard,  November 2001- December 2005:   (Co-advisors: G. Gallice) "Numerical simulation of the Zakharov system".  Thesis in collaboration with the  CEA.

Thomas Bouchères: (co-advisor: B. Nkonga)  November 2002-February 2006:
"Numerical situation of Raman amplification in nonlinear optics. Thesis in collaboration with
the  CEA.

Radoin Belaouar (co-advisor: C. Galusinski and Gérard Gallice) October 2003-December 2006:  "Landau Damping in plasma Physics", thesis in collaboration with the  CEA.

Sandra Tancogne (Co-advisor:  C.-H. Bruneau)  October 2004-: "Numerical computations in microfluidics" collaboration with Rhodia.

Sylvain Benitto (Co-advisor: C.-H. Bruneau and C. Gay) October 2005-: "Models for evolution of foams.

Julien Dambrine (Co-advisor: M. Colin) October 2006-: "Mixing in microfluidics".