I lead the VAST team (Variation and Abiotic Stress Tolerance) and the 'Phenoscope' platform for high-throughput phenotyping. I have signed more than 50 publications since 2001 and was the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2010. Since 2017, I act as deputy-director of IJPB in charge of the scientific strategy. I am also an associate editor of 'The Plant Journal'.

Bio sketch  
After studying biology and agronomy in Versailles (FR) then Rennes (FR) until a Master degree and Engineer diploma (1996), I left for a cooperation engineer contract at INRA in Guadeloupe (French West Indies, 1996-1998) and came back to Versailles to prepare my PhD at INRA under the supervision of Françoise Daniel-Vedèle (1998-2001).

I then spent my post-doc at the Salk Institute in San Diego (CA, USA) under the combined supervision of Joanne Chory and Detlef Weigel (2002-2004), before returning back to Versailles (FR) with a permanent INRA position in 2004. I then became 'full professor' in 2011, still working at the Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin (IJPB).

Scientific interests
The fundamental question in Biology that is the focus of my research is that of the genetic architecture of complex traits: what is the genetic (or epigenetic) basis for variation in size, form, environmental responses... that shape the green world. In other words, what is the genotype to phenotype equation ?

I essentially study these questions taking advantage of the natural diversity existing within a wild and model species (Arabidopsis thaliana), combined to novel high-throughput phenotyping robots, with the help of Mathematics.

My main scientific interests and results are described further on the VAST team pages of this website.