EDUCATION

• Ph. D. March 97 "Structure and energetics of curved graphitic surfaces", School of physics, University of Melbourne, Australia
• D.E.A. Solid State Physics July 93 (Fifth tertiary year level) Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
• B.Sc., Physics major Dec. 90 University of Western Australia
• Baccalauréat, Physical Sciences July 87 France

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Research Fellowship: transmission electron microscopy and three-dimensional atom probe field-ion microscopy study of solid-state nucleation in light alloys. April 00- School of Physics and Materials Engineering, Monash University, Australia. Team leaders: Prof. B. C. Muddle, Dr. J. F. Nie
• Post-doctoral fellowships: High-resolution and analytical transmission electron microscopy of novel boron nitride structures; simulation of electron diffraction patterns. Oct. 97-April 00 NIRIM, Tsukuba, Japan. Host researcher: Dr. Y. Bando
• Ph.D.: TEM (mostly high-resolution) of graphitic and alumino-silicate nanostructures; energetics calculations using a continuum elastic model. Dec.93-96 School of physics, University of Melbourne, Australia. Supervisor: Dr. L. A. Bursill
• Research project as part of D.E.A.: TEM of grain boundaries in quasicrystalline Al-Li-Cu alloy. Jan-Feb 93 Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France.Supervisor: Prof. M. Kléman
• Vacation scholarship: Synthesis by ion sputtering and characterization of multilayer amorphous Ni-Zr films for the study of diffusion in amorphous metals. May-July 92 Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique, Saclay, France. Supervisor: Dr. Y. Limoge

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Structural investigations of aperiodic/defective/nanosized objects using (high-resolution) transmission electron microscopy and atom probe field-ion microscopy.
• Structure modelling. Computer image analysis and simulation.

EMPLOYMENT

• Logan Research Fellow Dec. 01-  School of Physics and Materials Engineering, Monash University, Australia
• Post-Doctoral Fellow April 00-Dec. 01 School of Physics and Materials Engineering, Monash University, Australia
• Science and Technology Agency Post-Doctoral Fellow. April 98-April 00 NIRIM, Tsukuba, Japan
• Centre Of Excellence Fellow. Oct. 97- March 98 NIRIM, Tsukuba, Japan
• University laboratory demonstrator in first and second-year physics. March 94- Nov. 96 University of Melbourne, Australia

SKILLS

• Electron Microscopy: High-resolution and conventional transmission electron microscopy. Nanobeam diffraction. Electron energy loss spectroscopy. HRTEM image simulations and analysis.
• Field-Ion Microscopy. Three-dimensional atom probe
• Associated photography and dark-room skills; sample preparation.
• Computational: At ease with Unix, MacOS and Windows operating systems and software. Good programming knowledge of C. Learning Java.
• Communication: My work has been presented to international audiences in the form of oral presentations at about ten conferences, including the 2002 International Conference on Aluminium Alloys, Cambridge, the 1999 International Union of Crystallography Congress in Glasgow, and the 1998 Carbon Conference held in Tokyo.
• Language: Fluent in French (native language) and English. Basic conversation and written skills in Japanese, Spanish and German.

AWARDS AND PRIZES

• Prize for best HRTEM picture (boron nitride nanocone), Meeting of the Japan Ceramics Society, March 2000.
• Awarded Monash University Logan Research Fellowship, 2001.
• Winning entry (high resolution transmission electron microscopy image of a tin nanoparticle) to the 2004 Australian Electron Microscopy calendar.

AFFILIATIONS

• Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society

OTHER INTERESTS

• Painting and drawing
• Photography