Who am I?

I am Associate Professor at the XLIM (UMR CNRS 7252 / University of Limoges -- France) laboratory since 09/2004 (with a full position since 09/2006).
I am currently member of the DMI department (Département Mathématiques Informatique / Mathematics and Computer Sciences Department -- led by Prof. Samir Adly) of XLIM.

I have been elected:

  • as member of the CNU 27, the National Council of Universities (for France) which is the national authority in charge of recruiting academics in Computer Sciences and following up their careers (10/2011)
  • as representative of Associate Professors of XLIM in the council of the laboratory (01/2012).

Since 2012, I am holder of a premium for scientific excellence.

I am involved in:

With Claire Darraud, I am co-responsible of the Portal for "Science and Engineering (Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry)" for the first years of the Bachelor of Science delivered by the Faculty of Science and Technology of University of Limoges.

I deliver lectures notes on Smart Cards, Embedded Systems Security, Certification and Secure Development to students in second year of Master in Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand and Limoges.

I obtained my Ph.D. at the University Bordeaux 1 (France) in December 2004. The subject of my thesis was on the Java Card security (development of an emulator to experiment attacks against Java Card platform and applets; modeling some security problems).
From 03/09/2001 to 02/09/2004, I worked on the Java Card security in the ITSEF (Information Technology Security Evaluation Facilities) of SERMA Technologies.
From  01/02/2006 to 31/03/2006, I was invited researcher at the ISG-SCC (Information Security Group - Smart Card Centre) of the Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL). Then, from the 01/04/2006 to 10/08/2006 I was in a postdoctoral position at the ISG-SCC of the RHUL.