I am an experimental physicist fascinated by nature’s creative tips and tricks.

I love to explore new things, to dive into the unknown and to learn from others. This has become along the years a real way of living which has been eased by this new digital age. We have never been so close to any information and to anybody in the world that might have the answer to your question.

I leave in the countryside with my wife and my two kids. I love to garden and to tinker. I read permaculture books and try to implement those principles in my garden, my life and my teaching. There are so much similitude between a teacher and a gardener.

I am an explorer and citizen of the world. I travelled a lot. In 2011, my family and I went to Boston for a two year stay. I was a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and this experience boosted our life projects. I fell in love with MIT and its infinite opportunities and its handful of creativity.

Since 2014, we are back to Belgium. I am evolving as an assistant professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) where I am starting a new Soft Matter lab entitled Soft Structures and Surfaces trioS.lab ( my website ). My research interest is about the mechanics of surfaces and soft structures. For that I find my inspiration in the biological world such as the kingdom of plants for example. Thanks to digital fabrication tools and rapid prototyping tools, we devise model experiment (or synthetic analog) to question nature and to design new materials.

I try my best to make this world a better place. With that purpose in mind, I love to try new things: new ways of teaching, new ways of performing research, … this is so energy consuming but it is so rewarding. The people encountered during this journey are just fabulous and some of them will be joining me for this FabAcademy adventure.