Professional experience

• Since 2010 : Full Professor at Centrale Nantes.
• 2004-2009 : Associate Professor at Université de Nantes.
• 2001-2004 : Adjunct Lecturer at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (now Paris-Saclay) and Université Paris 6 (now Sorbonne Université).
• 2000-2002 : Adjunct Lecturer at Centrale Paris (now CentraleSupelec).

Education and degrees

• 2008 : Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Université de Nantes.
• 2003 : Ph.D. Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (now Paris-Saclay).
• 2000 : Master of Science degree from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université).
• 1997-2001 : Student-Teacher at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (now Paris-Saclay).

Research interests

Numerical analysis, Approximation theory, Probabilistic numerical methods, Statistical learning, Tensor methods, Model order reduction, Uncertainty quantification

Editorial activities

• Editorial board of SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2019-present)
• Editorial board of Advances in Computational Mathematics, Springer (2019-present)
• Editorial board of International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification, Begell House (2018-present)
• Editorial board of Mathematical Problems In Engineering (2011-2013).
• Guest Editor for Advances in Computational Mathematics (Springer), Topical collection “Model Reduction and Surrogate Modeling (MORe)”, 2023.
• Guest Editor for Advances in Computational Mathematics (Springer), Special issue MoRePaS 2018.
• Guest Editor of ScienceOpen Poster Collection MoRePaS 2018.
• Guest Editor of ESAIM:Proceedings, 2014.
• Guest Editor, special issue on “Recent advances in Proper Generalized Decompositions”, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2010.

Societal responsabilities

• Director of the french research network on Uncertainty Quantification (RT-UQ) funded by CNRS (former GDR Mascot-Num) since january 2024.
• Director of the group SMAI-SIGMA (Signal Image Geometry Modeling Approximation) since december 2023
• Director of the GDR Mascot-Num (french research network) from 2021 to 2023.
• Member of the Administration Board of SMAI (Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles).
• Member of the bureau of the group SMAI-SIGMA (Signal Image Geometry Modeling Approximation) since 2016.
• Member of the steering committee of the GDR Mascot-Num since 2012.
• Member of the scientific committee of the GDR Calcul since 2021.

Other societal activities

• Participation to Research Groups : GDR MoMaS (2008-2011), GDR AMORE (since 2012), GDR MANU (since 2016), GDR Mascot-Num (since 2011), GDR Calcul (2022-).
• Expert for the funding program of the French National Research Agency (ANR) as member of committee (CES), 2018 and 2019.
• Expert for the funding program of the French National Research Agency (ANR).
• Expert for European Research Council.
• Expert for IWT’s funding program for Strategic Basic Research (SBO) in Belgium.
• Expert for the Swiss National Science Foundation.
• Expert for INRIA.
• Expert for the funding programme of Ville de Paris.
• Expert for HCERES in 2018, 2019, 2021.
• Thesis and HDR examination: G. Blatman (Université Blaise Pascal, Reviewer), L. Nespurek (University of Brno, Reviewer), A. Notin (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Reviewer), E. Zander (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Reviewer), P. Areny (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Reviewer), T. Crestaux (Université Paris 13, Président), F. Zhang (Ecole des Mines de Douai, Reviewer), N. Akkari (Université de La Rochelle, Reviewer), H. Mac (Université de Lille, Reviewer), A. Janon (Université Joseph Fourier), F. Thomines (Université Paris-Est, Reviewer), L. Boucinha (Université de Lyon), F. Casenave (Université Paris-Est), M. Oumouni (Université de Rennes, Reviewer), O. Pasqualini (Université de Nantes), G. Perrin (Université Paris-Est, Reviewer), A. Chkifa (Université Pierre et Marie Curie), S. Dubreuil (Université de Toulouse, Reviewer), P. Hauseux (Université de Lille, Reviewer), Y. Gao (D. Hilhorst, Reviewer), C. W. Mai (ETH Zurich, Reviewer), J. Hammond (Université Paris-Est, Reviewer), O. Clément (Paris Sciences et Lettres, Président), R. Sanchez (Université Paris-Saclay), T. H. Luu (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Reviewer), Y. Paquay (Université de Liège, Reviewer), J.-C. Croix (Mines Saint-Etienne, Président), S. Marque-Pucheu (Universite Paris Diderot, Président), L. Montier (Université de Lille, Reviewer), J.-B. Wahl (Université de Strasbourg, Reviewer), A.-F. Lopez Lopera (Mines Saint-Etienne, Reviewer), L. Bernard (Université de Tours, Reviewer), Mazen Ali (Université de Ulm, Reviewer), C. Paillet (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan), P.-L. Rothe (Université Paris Est, Reviewer), A. Alahmad (Université Bourgogne Franche-Compté, Reviewer), R. Hild (Université de Strasbourg, Reviewer), L. Khoun (Sorbonne Université, Reviewer), T. Lacroix (Sorbonne Université, Reviewer, Président), M. Marschall (Technische Universität Berlin, Reviewer), F. Allaire (Sorbonne Université, Reviewer), G. Ducamp (Sorbonne Université, Président), J. Reis (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Reviewer), A. Touboul (Université Paris Est, Président), P. Trunschke (Technische Universität Berlin, Reviewer), E. Vidlickkova (Ecole Fédérale Polytechnique de Lausanne, Reviewer), M. Iannacito (Université de Bordeaux), Baptiste Kerleguer (Ecole Polytechnique), Matthias Baray (Université de Toulouse), Olga Mula (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Reviewer), Y. Guilleminot (Université Paris Est, Reviewer), R. Cottereau (Université de Pierre et Marie-Curie, Reviewer).
• Participation to recruiting committees for positions of assistant or full professors in Université de La Rochelle, Université de Nantes (3), Université Toulouse Paul Sabatier (3), Université de Nancy, IFMA Clermont- Ferrand (2), Ecole Centrale Nantes (3), Université Paris 6, Université Paris-Est (2), Mines Saint-Etienne, Centrale Lyon, TU Berlin, Sorbonne Université, Institut Polytechnique de Paris.
• Reviewer for international journals: Foundations of Computational Mathematics, SIAM J. Scientific Computing, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Constructive Approximation, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Mathematics of Computation, SIAM J. Uncertainty Quantification, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Journal of Computational Physics, Applied Mathematics and Computation, International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, Physica D : Nonlinear Phenomena, Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, European J. for Computational Mechanics, Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, International J. of Computer Mathematics, Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Applied Mathematics Letters

Organization of conferences and workshops

• Chairman and organizer of the conference MoRePaS 2018, Nantes, April 10-13, 2018.
• Co-Chairman and executive committee of the conference MoRe 2022, Berlin, September 19-23, 2022.
• Chairman and organizer of SMAI 2019, Guidel Plages, 13-17 mai 2019.
• Chairman and organizer of the conference Mascot-Num 2018, Nantes, March 21-23, 2018.
• Executive committee of the conference Mascot-Num 2019, Rueil-Malmaison, March 18-20, 2019.
• Co-organizer of the conference SIGMA, 30 mar.-3 Apr., CIRM, Marseille, 2020. (Not realized)
• Co-organizer of the conference Mascot-Num 2023, Le Croisic, April 3-6, 2023.
• Co-organizer of the international workshop “Numerical methods for high-dimensional problems”, Marne-La-Vallée, 2014.
• Co-organizer of the international workshops “Reduced Basis, POD and PGD model reduction techniques”: Cachan, November 2012, Blois, November 2013, Cachan November 2015.
• Co-organizer of the international workshop "Optimal Sampling for approximation", March 10, 2022, IHP, Paris.
• Co-organizer of the workshop "Stochastic simulators", March 11, 2021, Online.
• Co-organizer of the workshop "Kernel and Sampling Methods for Design and Quantization", November 15, 2021, IHP, Paris.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “Journées MOMAS Multiphasiques”, Nice, 5-7 October 2015.
• Co-organizer of the workshop “TYCHE: modélisations stochastiques en grande dimension pour la propagation et la quantification d’incertitudes en mécanique”, Paris, 6-7 December 2012.
• Co-organizer of the national workshop “Journées CSMA 2010”, Nantes, 2010.
• Co-organizer of the national conference “JFMS 2008”, Nantes 2008.
• Organizer of the working meeting “Stochastic Spectral Methods”, IHP, Paris, May 11th 2012
• Co-organizer of minisymposia in international conferences (WCCM 2012 in Brazil, SIAM Linear Algebra 2012 in Spain, SIAM UQ 2014, ICIAM 2015, SIAM UQ 2016, UNCECOMP 2017, ICIAM 2019, SIAM UQ 2020, SIAM UQ 2022, Curves and Surfaces 2022).
• Co-organizer of minisymposia in national conferences (Giens2009, JFMS2010, MascotNum2012)
• Member of the scientific committee of conferences: CSMA 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017, JFMS 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016, UNCECOMP 2015, 2017 and 2023, CSMA 2015, Workshop Reduced Basis POD and PGD model reduction techniques 2013 et 2015, MoRePaS 2018, Mascot-Num 2020, Mascot-Num 2021, SMAI 2021, Mascot-Num 2022, MoRe 2022.

Awards and fellowships

• John Argyris award, 2010.
• Young Researchers Programme Grant from the French National Research Agency, 2006-2009.
• Ph.D. fellowship from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, 2000-2003.

Supervising activities

• Ph.D Students: Alexandre Clément, Humberto Yanez-Godoy, Wei-Dong Lian, Loic Giraldi, Olivier Zahm, Prashant Rai, Elias Safatly, Quentin Ayoul-Guilmard, Oleg Balabanov, Erwan Grelier, Cécile Haberstich, Arthur Macherey, Clément Cardoën, Alexandre Pasco, Joël Pascal Soffo Wambo
• Post-doctoral research associates: Alexandre Clément, George Stefanou, Gael Bonithon, Florent Pled, Loic Giraldi, Mazen Ali, Philipp Trunschke.

Research Schools and Tutorials

• Co-organizer of the summer school CEMRACS 2013 (“Modelling and simulation of complex sys- tems: stochastic and deterministic approaches”), CIRM, Marseille, July-August 2013.
• Co-organizer of the Oberwolfach seminar: “Projection Based Model Reduction: Reduced Basis Methods, POD and Low-Rank tensor approximations”, Oberwolfach, November 23-29, 2014.
• Co-organizer of the ”Workshop CHORUS: A tutorial on Model order reduction for parametric analyses and uncertainty quantification with applications”, IHP, Paris, 20 mars 2014.
• Co-organizer of the summer school CEA/EDF/INRIA “Reduced Order Models for numerical simulation”, Paris, 20-24 June, 2016.
• Co-organizer of the Banach Center - Oberwolfach Seminar: “Model Reduction and Approximation: Projection-, Tensor- and Data-based Methods ”, Bedlewo, November 1-7, 2020. (Not realized)
• Co-organizer of the research school High Dimensional Approximation and Deep Learning, Nantes, 16-20 may 2022.
• Co-organizer of the Banach Center - Oberwolfach Seminar: “Model Reduction and Approximation: Projection-, Tensor- and Data-based Methods ”, Bedlewo, November 13-17, 2023.
• Courses in summer schools and tutorials: Conference JFMS, Nantes, 2008; Summer school ECODOQUI November 2008; French-German Summer school, Pforzheim, Germany, August 2011; French- German Summer School, Porquerolles, September 2014; Ateliers ESNT, Saclay, February 2014; Workshop Chorus, March 2014, Oberwolfach Seminar, November 2014; Ateliers ESNT, Saclay, January 2015; Summer school CEA/EDF/INRIA, 20-24 June, 2016. IHP quarter on Numerical Methods for PDEs, Cargese, September 5-9, 2016. Workshop Frontier Technologies for High-Dimensional Problems and Uncertainty Quantification, Linz, 14-21 December, 2018; Model Order Reduction Summer School, Eindhoven, September 23-27, 2019; Workshop Learning and simulation in high dimension, Airbus Group, Paris, June 25-27, 2019; Summer School CEMRACS on Data Assimilation and Reduced Modeling for High Dimensional Problems, Luminy, July 2021; Journées du GDR MANU, October 2021; Research school on Uncertainty in Scientific Computing (ETICS), L'Ile Rousse, 2-7 October 2022.

Responsabilities at Centrale Nantes - Nantes Université

• Member of the Administration Board of Centrale Nantes, since 2020.
• President of the Restricted Administration Board of Centrale Nantes, since 2022.
• Head of the training programme in "Mathematics and Applications" at Centrale Nantes, since 2014.
• Member of the scientific committee of Labex Lebesgue since 2022.