I am an assistant professor at AgroParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food, and Environmental Sciences), affiliated with the Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences (IJPB) since 2025, in the team SYmbiotic Nitrogen Acquisition in Plant-microbe Systems (SYNAPS), led by Prof. Alia Dellagi. Within the SYNAPS team, I investigate the role of root-associated microbiota, including arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and rhizobacteria, in the nitrogen nutrition of maize. I combine plant physiology, microbiology and omics technologies to unravel the underlying mechanisms involved in the plant-microbiota systems. I teach classes on plant-microbe interactions and omics technologies at the Bachelor's to Master's level at AgroParisTech and University Paris-Saclay.

I obtained an MSc in Plant Functional Biology and a PhD in Systems Biology from the University of Montpellier. During my PhD at the Plant Health Institute of Montpellier, I studied the response of rice to root-colonizing Burkholderia s.l. species exerting beneficial or pathogenic interactions with their host plant. I particularly unraveled the differential immune response regarding the ecology and colonization patterns of the bacterial species. In 2021, I joined the Joint Genome Institute (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA) as part of an international project funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) that aimed at advancing inter-laboratory reproducibility in plant-microbiota studies using the model plant Brachypodium dystachyon, a model synthetic community and the EcoFAB 2.0. From 2022 to 2024, I joined the Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain) as part of a Severo Ochoa Program grant to explore the response of the tomato holobiont to combined phosphate starvation and heat stress. There, I was involved in several projects studying plant-microbe systems under abiotic stress (heavy metals, salinity, heat stress, phosphate starvation).