A more complete CV is available here.

Position

Since September 2008: L.E. Dickson Instructor in the Mathematics department of the University of Chicago.

Education

September 2002 - June 2005: magistère de mathématiques at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (Master's degree in mathematics).
2005 - 2008: Phd student at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (advisor: Étienne Ghys). I defended my thesis in february 2008.

Publications

See here.

Some conferences I attended

  • International conference on group theory: combinatorial, geometric and dynamical aspects of infinite groups, Gaeta (Italy), June 2003.
  • Géométrie à courbure négative ou nulle, groupes discrets, rigidité, École d'été de l'Institut Fourier, Grenoble (France), June-July 2004.
  • Colloquium in dynamical systems and ergodic theory, Université Bordeaux 1 (France), June 2005.
  • Workshop on conservative dynamics and Lagrangian systems, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), August 2005.
  • Dynamique sur les surfaces ; méthodes topologiques, École d'été de l'Institut Fourier, Grenoble (France), June-July 2006.
  • Geometric Group Theory, Hyperbolic Dynamics and Symplectic Geometry, Workshop, Oberwolfach (Germany), July 2006.
  • Symplectic Geometry and measure Preserving Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah (USA), July 2007.
  • Geometry, Rigidity and Group Actions, conference in honor of R.J. Zimmer 60th's birthday, University of Chicago (USA), September 2007.
  • Geometric Group Theory, conference in honor of M. Davis 60th's birthday, Bedlewo (Poland), June 2009.

    • Recent talks in seminars

  • Quasi-isometric embeddings of Abelian groups in Hofer's geometry, Geometry and Dynamics seminar, Tel-Aviv University (Israël), April 2007.
  • Quasi-morphisms and Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms, Geometry seminar, University of Michigan (USA), September 2007.
  • Quasi-morphisms and Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms, joint Topology-Dynamics seminar, Indiana University (USA), September 2007.
  • Autour de la distance de Hofer, séminaire de géométrie symplectique et applications, IRMA Strasbourg (France), January 2008.
  • Some cohomology classes associated to groups of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of surfaces, Tel-Aviv University (Israël), April 2008.
  • Bounded cohomology and dynamics on surfaces, colloquium, Technion, Haifa (Israël), June 2008.
  • Quasi-morphisms continuous for the C^0-topology on groups of area-preserving diffeomorphisms of surfaces, Northwestern University (USA), November 2008.
  • Quasi-morphisms and area-preserving homeomorphisms, Cornell University (USA), February 2009.
  • Quasi-morphisms and area-preserving homeomorphisms, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA), March 2009.
  • Quasi-morphisms and area-preserving homeomorphisms, Caltech (USA), March 2009.

    • Talks in conferences

  • Calabi quasi-morphism on higher genus surfaces, Workshop on conservative dynamics and Lagrangian systems, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), August 2005.
  • Calabi quasi-morphisms on the 2-torus, workshop Geometric Group Theory, Hyperbolic Dynamics and Symplectic Geometry, Oberwolfach (Germany), July 2006.
  • Quasi-isometric embeddings of Euclidean spaces in the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms, Symlectic Topology and Measure Preserving Dynamical Systems, AMS-IMS-SIAM joint summer research conference, Snowbird resort, Snowbird, Utah (USA), July 2007.
  • Bounded cohomology and dynamics on surfaces, Geometry, Rigidity and group Actions, a conference in honor of Robert J. Zimmer 60th's birthday, University of Chicago (USA), September 2007.
  • Quasi-morphisms and area-preserving homeomorphisms, Geometric Group Theory, conference in honor of M. Davis 60th's birthday, Bedlewo (Poland), June 2009.

    • Conference organized

  • Oberwolfach Seminar on Bounded Cohomology, with M. Bucher-Karlsson and N. Monod, Oberwolfach (Germany), June 2009.

    • Teaching

    See here.

    Miscellaneous

    Languages: French (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), Portuguese.