I am a Post Doctoral Research Associate working in the group of Prof. Wilma K. Olson (group page) at the BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology since August 2009.

My research mainly concerns the mechanics and physics of DNA and its interaction with other biological systems such as proteins.

I completed my PhD at Institut de Mécanique d'Alembert (UPMC University Paris 6) in 2008 under the supervision of Basile Audoly and Sébastien Neukirch. My PhD work was concerned with self-contact in elastic rods and more precisely with mechanics of DNA supercoiling and elasticity of knots. More details about my PhD ...

Mechanical and physical properties of DNA play a key role in the biological processes involved in the cell and in the interactions with proteins and enzymes. With a view to address such issues I mainly focus on DNA elastic rod models in which physical effect, such as thermal fluctuations or long-range interaction, are taken into account. My recent studies were concerned with the mechanics of DNA supercoiling in magnetic tweezer experiments and also with the modeling of DNA-DNA electrostatic interactions.

I am also interested in other subjects related to the elasticity of rods, such as knotted rods or viscous thread simulations. More details ...