ABOUT ME
I am a Professor of Physics in the Centre Interdisplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille (CINaM) at Aix-Marseille University (AMU) since December 2019. Before that, I was an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), in Saudi Arabia. I joined KAUST in 2009 after a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Missouri-Columbia and University of Arizona-Tuscon. I graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France in 2004 and earned a PhD in Physics in 2007 from University Joseph Fourier and CEA/SPINTEC laboratory in France.
My research interest spans from spin-orbit coupled transport to chiral magnetism, antiferromagnets and ultrafast spin dynamics. I have engaged in a number of collaborations with both experimentalists and theorists in his field around the world, including researchers at National University of Singapore, Gutenberg University at Mainz, Cornell University, University of Minnesota, CEA/CNRS Grenoble in France etc. I have authored over 150 publications (Google Scholar) in esteemed journals including Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Physics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Review of Modern Physics, Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters, and Physical Review B. Since 2021, I am an elected member of the National Commission of CNRS, Section 3 (Condensed Matter Physics).
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Spin Electronics
Spin transport and magnetization dynamics
2004 - 2007
University Grenoble-Alpes, SPINTEC
PhD in Physics
Materials Modeling
First principles and tight-binding modelling of realistic materials and heterostructures
Condensed Matter Physics Theory
Quantum transport, ultrafast dynamics
2003 - 2004
University Paris-Saclay
Master of Science “Lasers and Matter” Summa Cum Laude
2000 - 2003
Ecole Polytechnique
Engineering Bachelor and Master Degrees
Other diploma
2016-2019
Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon
Bachelor of Arts in History