- Holmes, what kind of school did you attend to be a detective?
- Elementary, Watson.

Previous positions

1999–2000:
ATER at Université Paris 7
Formation and propagation of desert dunes
collaboration with Vincent Hakim, Laboratoire de physique statistique, ÉNS, Paris

1995–1999:
PhD thesis in Fluid Mechanics: Nonlinear synchronized behaviour of open shear flows
at Laboratoire d'hydrodynamique (Ladhyx)
École polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Advisor: Patrick Huerre