Resume (CV)
Professional experience
CURRENT POSITIONS
2021 - Present Director of the Department of Precision Health, Luxembourg Institute of Health
2020 - Present Group Leader of the Deep Digital Phenotyping Research Unit, Department of Population Health, Luxembourg Insitute of Health
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2019 - 2020 Research Leader in Digital Epidemiology and e-Health, Department of Population Health, Luxembourg Institute of Health
2013 – 2019 Senior Research Scientist in Digital & Diabetes Epidemiology, Inserm CESP, Paris South University, France. Coordinating a team of 5 people on diabetes epidemiology and artificial intelligence application in epidemiology
2012 & 2013 Visiting Scientist, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Diabetes and Population Health unit, Melbourne, Australia (Total duration: 5 months). The collaboration is still ongoing.
2011 – 2013 Head of the Biostatistics Department and postdoctoral research in diabetes epidemiology, Team “Nutrition, Hormones and Women’s Health”, Inserm CESP unit
Cursus
2019 Accreditation to direct research. University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
2016 Habilitation thesis (HDR : French habilitation for PhD supervision, the highest university diploma in France allowing applications for a position of full professor). Title: Dietary and lifestyle factors and risks of type 2 diabetes and its complications. Faculty of Medicine, Paris South/Paris Saclay University, France
2008-2011 PhD in Epidemiology, obtained with honors. Title: Dietary factors, components of the metabolic syndrome and risks of type 2 diabetes and breast cancer in the E3N cohort study. Faculty of Medicine, Paris South University, France. Supervisor: Françoise Clavel-Chapelon
2008 Master of Science - Modelling in Clinical Pharmacology and Epidemiology. Faculty of medicine, Rennes 1 University, France
2008 Master’s level engineering degree in Statistics and Life Sciences, National School for Statistics and Information Analysis (Ensai) - Rennes, France
Principal Investigator
2021 - Present Colive Voice
2020 - Present Predi-COVID Cohort Study
2017 - Present World Diabetes Distress Study
2013 - 2019 E4N Cohort study
Supervision
5 Postdocs
12 PhD students
21 Master Students
Editorial & Peer Review Activities
2015 - Present Associate Editor, "Diabetes & Metabolism" and "Diabetes Epidemiology & Management" Journals, Elsevier
2020 - 2021 Guest Editor, COVID-19 Special Issue, Journal of Medical Internet Research
Peer reviewer for the following journals (non-exhaustive list): The BMJ, JAMA, Plos Medicine, Diabetologia, Diabetes Care, NPJ Digital Medicine, Scientific Reports, Diabetes & Metabolism, International Journal of Epidemiology, International Journal of Obesity, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Public Health Nutrition
Grants
So far, I have obtained a total of 7.4M€ as a PI or co-PI.
Awards and scientific prizes
2024 Auguste Loubatières Award - French Speaking Diabetes Society
2015 Prize for Best Young Researcher on Diabetes, Embassy of Sweden in France
2012 & 2013 French-Australian Science Innovation Collaboration Grants. Two grants of 6500€ to fund two research stays as a visiting scientist in the unit “Diabetes and Population Health” at Baker IDI, Melbourne, Australia
Learned societies
Since 2017 Member of the French-Speaking Diabetes Society (SFD)
2019-2022 Member of the Scientific Committee, French Speaking Diabetes Society (SFD)