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I was born on July 21, 1973, in Besancon, France. I grew up and spent my secondary school years in the Jura, a mountain chain at the boundary between France and Switzerland.
In 1994, I entered a French engineering school (l'Ecole des Mines in Saint-Etienne), already with the idea of learning about
the elementary components of matter. I then took a DEA (5th university year) in Paris on this subject. In 1998, I did my military service as a scientist in the CEA laboratory at Saclay (a Paris suburb), working on an underground experiment under the Alpes, searching for a new type of cosmic particle.
I stayed at the CEA for my PhD, which I received in 2002, searching again for new elementary particles but on a huge accelerator this time, at an experiment named D0 at Fermilab, near Chicago. I was hired at CEA this same year and, since then, I have continued to work at the D0 experiment.
2005 will be a special and important year for me. Indeed in March,
I am getting married to Chris. Chris, her 7-year-old daughter Lisa,and I have been living together since 2003 in Paris (when I am not on a plane to Chicago!).
I love listening to music (actually very different types of music: from classical music to English independent rock). My parisian life offers me also a large choice of movies even if I often didn't manage to go and see all the films I would like to. Finally I try whenever possible to maintain my rather big friendship network.
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