I received my PhD in chemistry from the Université Côte D'Azur, France, in 2021. I'm specialized in chemoinformatics and machine-learning, as well as molecular modeling of G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs). My PhD project tackled taste perception and olfaction using computational approaches, as well as software development side-projects and teaching.
Volunteer work for the design and maintenance of the consortium webpage
Development for the Python module MDAnalysis. In charge of the RDKit interoperability project:
Developped ChemFlow, a series of computational chemistry workflows:
Title: Molecular basis of chemosensory perception
Smell and taste perception consists in a chemical stimulation of transmembrane receptors lying on the surface of sensory cells located in the nasal or oral cavity. The receptors involved in olfaction and the perception of bitter, sweet and umami taste all belong to the well-studied G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) family, yet to date their exact tridimensional structure still eludes us. In this thesis, I study the molecular structures at the frontline of chemosensory perception, namely receptors and their ligands, through a computational lens.
Techniques: Molecular modeling, chemoinformatics, machine-learning, molecular dynamics, software and web development
Development of QSAR models for the prediction of several gustative and olfactive properties
Calculation of binding affinities of ligand-receptor complexes from MD simulations, using the MM/PBSA approach
Construction of 3D models of several bitter taste receptors using homology modeling and multiple sequence alignment
GPA: M1 15.1/20 - M2 14.9/20
GPA: L1 15.8/20 - L2 14.9/20 - L3 14.5/20
Lecture given to middle school students
For first year bachelor students (L1)
For second year bachelor students (L2)
I spend most of my free-time playing video-games. I am a co-leader of a french speaking team with around 20 members. It involves vocal and game server configuration, competitive training, and participation to some events. I also develop and contribute to open-source computational chemistry tools such as mols2grid, ProLIF, or MDAnalysis.
In the winter, I enjoy snowboarding The rest of the year, I regularly play badminton with friends.