News
- A 1-year fellowship is available for an engineer to develop the fMRI setup in Dijon. Please contact me for info.
- I have set up the Toipical Team "Motor control in uncertain dynamics" funded by the European Space Agency. More info can be found at http://deltag.weebly.com/
Short Biography
I was born in Belgium in 1977. After my high school studies with a scientific and mathematic orientation, I entered the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 1995 and obtained my master in Computer Engineering in 2000. My thesis was devoted to the study of Java technology in embedded and real-time systems.
From 2000 to 2002, I worked in the Rehabilitation Unit (medicine faculty, UCL - Prof JL Thonnard) as a software and hardware engineer to create an experimental platform dedicated to parabolic flights.
Between 2002 and 2007, I did a PhD in systems and control at CESAME (Center for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics - Prof P Lefevre). I was an active member of a Topical Team organized by ESA and contributed to the planning of experiments to be conducted in the International Space Station. My main interests were focused on the role of gravity in the control of dexterous manipulation.
Between 2007 and 2009, I was a post doc fellow at Bangor University (UK) to investigate motor control in redundant systems (Jörn Diedrichsen).
Then I worked during 18 months at the European Science Foundation to support peer review activities of scientific proposals submitted to different space agencies (end: 09/2010).
I am now working as an associate professor in Computational Neuroscience at Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France (see Research tab for more detail).
Last century, I rode across the US with my bicycle (see cover and summary of the book we wrote). I look forward doing something similar with my family... in a few years.
[CV in PDF]
Areas of Expertise
Multidisciplinary approach is probably the most fitting word to describe my research experience and acquired skills.
Before my PhD, I worked as a fundamental research and clinical software and hardware developer. I implemented an experimental platform for dedicated real-time data acquisition on human subjects in altered gravity environments.
My PhD focused on behavioral aspects of motor control and neuroscience. My participation in several other research projects offered me the possibility to acquire additional skills in eye movements and eye-hand coordination. More precisely, my research investigated how the human brain adapts its strategy to manipulate objects in hypergravity (2g) and microgravity (0g) induced by parabolic flights.
My post-doc at Bangor University (UK 2007-2009) under the supervision of Prof. J. Diedrichsen addressed the following issues: application of optimal control theory to object manipulation, interactions between high-level feedforward commands and low-level reflexive feedback mechanisms. I used behavioral and mathematical techniques to investigate adaptation and correction in redundant systems.
At the European Science Foundation, I became familiar with science management and how scientific proposals are being peer reviewed.
From 2000 to 2002, I worked in the Rehabilitation Unit (medicine faculty, UCL - Prof JL Thonnard) as a software and hardware engineer to create an experimental platform dedicated to parabolic flights.
Between 2002 and 2007, I did a PhD in systems and control at CESAME (Center for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics - Prof P Lefevre). I was an active member of a Topical Team organized by ESA and contributed to the planning of experiments to be conducted in the International Space Station. My main interests were focused on the role of gravity in the control of dexterous manipulation.
Between 2007 and 2009, I was a post doc fellow at Bangor University (UK) to investigate motor control in redundant systems (Jörn Diedrichsen).
Then I worked during 18 months at the European Science Foundation to support peer review activities of scientific proposals submitted to different space agencies (end: 09/2010).
I am now working as an associate professor in Computational Neuroscience at Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France (see Research tab for more detail).
Last century, I rode across the US with my bicycle (see cover and summary of the book we wrote). I look forward doing something similar with my family... in a few years.
[CV in PDF]
Areas of Expertise
Multidisciplinary approach is probably the most fitting word to describe my research experience and acquired skills.
Before my PhD, I worked as a fundamental research and clinical software and hardware developer. I implemented an experimental platform for dedicated real-time data acquisition on human subjects in altered gravity environments.
My PhD focused on behavioral aspects of motor control and neuroscience. My participation in several other research projects offered me the possibility to acquire additional skills in eye movements and eye-hand coordination. More precisely, my research investigated how the human brain adapts its strategy to manipulate objects in hypergravity (2g) and microgravity (0g) induced by parabolic flights.
My post-doc at Bangor University (UK 2007-2009) under the supervision of Prof. J. Diedrichsen addressed the following issues: application of optimal control theory to object manipulation, interactions between high-level feedforward commands and low-level reflexive feedback mechanisms. I used behavioral and mathematical techniques to investigate adaptation and correction in redundant systems.
At the European Science Foundation, I became familiar with science management and how scientific proposals are being peer reviewed.
