Work experience

Since October 2007	Research Fellow	SPCG at ISVR at University of Southampton Southampton, UK	Research Fellow working on the workpackage 4 of the EU project HandToMouth: "Study of Neanderthal speech articulation" (see the research section for more details)
2006 - 2007	Assistant Lecturer (ATER)	GIPSA (ex-ICP) and ENSERG, INPG Grenoble, France	Assistant Lecturer (ATER): Teaching: at ENSERG, one of the engineering schools of INPG, (see the teaching section for more details) Research: at the Department Speech and Cognition of the new laboratory GIPSA (ex-ICP): "Acoustic analysis of nasal sounds by articulatory modelling" (see the research section for more details)
April - August 2003	Research Trainee	OSL at Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK	Research Trainee at the Ocean Systems Laboratory of the Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK): "3D Reconstruction from Optical Flow Estimation " (6 months)
2001 - 2002	Engineer Trainee	TI Nice, France	Engineer Trainee at Texas Instruments (Villeneuve-Loubet, France): "Design of an Audio Controler for GSM architecture on the DSP TI C54x" (1 year)
July - August 2000	Computer Assistant	Paris, France	Assistant in computer science in a bank (Paris, France - 2 months)
July - August 1998	Agricultural worker	Münster, Germany	Agricultural worker (Münster, Germany - 3 weeks)

Education and Qualifications

2003 - 2006	PhD student	ICP (now DPC at GIPSA) Grenoble, France	PhD student at the Institut de la Communication Parlée (Institute of Speech Communication, now Department Speech and Cognition of GIPSA, Grenoble, France): "Three-dimensional modelling of the speech organs from MRI images for nasals production" under supervision of Pierre Badin. => See abstract and keywords here and more details here => Download the thesis here [Warning: French only, 24.2 MB] => Download the presentation in English here and in French here [Warning: 6 MB]
1999 - 2003	Engineer Student	ENST Bretagne Brest, France TUD Dresden, Germany	Engineer Student at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunication de Bretagne (Graduate School of Telecommunications Engineering, Brest, France) Major in Signal Processing and Communication during the last year DEA STIR (post-graduate degree in Signal processing, Telecommunications, Image and Radar) in parallèle of the last year Student at the University of Dresden (Germany): 5 months in 2001
1997 - 1999	Student	Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France	Post High School advanced Math and Physics classes in preparation for the competitive entrance examinations to French Engineering Schools - Lycée Marcelin Berthelot (Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France)
1997	Student	Paris, France	Baccalauréat S (School Leaving Certificate)

Foreign languages and Skills

Fellowship Awards and Professional Service

• Reviewer for Speech Communication
  Reviewer for Clinical Neurophysiology
• Certification to apply to full Assistant Professor positions in French universities (February 2007)
• Research and teaching fellowship from Grenoble Institute of Technology (2006-2007)
• Doctoral fellowship from the French Research Ministry (2003-2006)
• Elected representative of the PhD students and post-doctoral researchers (2004 and 2005) at the Laboratory Committee (decisional board of the laboratory, 15 people)
• Member of the speakers committee of ICP (2003 - 2007)

Interests

• Activities: High participation in the engineering school collaborative projects (1999-2003): co-organizer (8 people) of the Students - Industries meeting (80 companies, 2000 students), co-organizer of the Gala party, etc.
• Sports : Mountaineering (ski, ski touring, alpinism, hiking), Basque Pelota (regular practise), Nautical Sports (swimming, windsurfing, bodyboarding)
• Culture : Oenology (member of a club), Travelling, History