My research activities are focused on fine scale sediment transport processes that ranges from fundamental physical mechanisms such as particle-particle interactions or particle-turbulence interactions to applied research like scour around hydraulic structures. My goal is to improve our understanding of physical processes by using complementary laboratory experiments and fluid mechanistic modeling approaches to improve prediction capabilities of engineering models. In order to achieve this goal I collaborate with different high level national and international research institutions (University of Delaware, Penn State University, Karlshruhe Institute of Technology, University of Manchester, Aix-Marseille University, University of Rennes, IRSTEA Grenoble). We have released an open-source version of a new generation of sediment transport model: sedFOAM which aims at federating the research effort around this topic.
Recently, ARTELIA GROUP (International engineering consulting company), has funded the industrial chair OXALIA to foster the emergence of new modeling approaches for engineering applications. I am currently the holder of this chair for the period 2021-2025.