I am a CNRS researcher and co-ordinator of the Neutrino Group at Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie.
My research career began with the search for Dark Matter - one of the most intriguing challenges common to astrophysics and particle physics. With now an education in the techniques of low background physics and rare event searches, I began my foray into the fundamental question of the neutrino identity via the search for neutrinoless double beta decay. Then I
moved naturally to my current research interest: neutrino oscillation and neutrino mixing properties with the experiment Double Chooz.
All the experiments I have worked on, in particular those involved in rare event searches, have pushed the technology frontier in order to achieve their physics goals. For novel physics, we need novel detectors. Therefore a large part of my work has been orientated towards detector R&D. Our concept of the Organic Liquid TPC stems from an interest to develop new technologies to study further the neutrino.
Research interests: neutrino oscillations, underground physics, low background detectors, neutrinoless double beta decay, direct dark matter search.
Previous experiments: ZEPLIN III, COBRA