Annuaire

Professional Experience

• Junior Fellow, Institut universitaire de France, IUF, France [2023-2028].
• Full Professor, ICB UMR 6303 CNRS, Belfort-Montbeliard University of Technology, UTBM, France. [2021-now]
• Head of Design, Optimization, and Mechanical Modeling Department, ICB UMR 6303, CNRS, 35 people. [2022-now]
• Deputy-Director, S.mart Academic Society, Franche-Comté. [2014-now]
• Deputy-Director, TITAN Platform, UTBM/ICB. [2018-now]
• Associate Professor, ICB UMR 6303, CNRS, UTBM, France. [2011-2021]
• Head of Product Design and Development Branch, Mechanical Engineering and Design Department, UTBM (50 students). [2012-now]
• Postdoctoral Researcher, EPFL, Lab for CAD/CAM, Lausanne, Switzerland. [2010-2011]
• Research Assistant, UTBM IRTES-M3M, France. [2007-2010]

Education

• Research Habilitation, UTBM, Proactive integration of manufacturing processes in design and formalization of related spatiotemporal knowledge: Application to assembly and 4D printing. [2019]
• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, UTBM, Integrated Design and PLM: Application to product and its assembly sequence. [2010]
• Engineer Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, UTBM. [2007]

• PEPR DIADEM – Targeted project ARTEMIS, Accelerated discovery and development of smart materials and structures using 4D printing technologies, Principal Investigator, UTBM, Funding: EUR 1.5 Million [2024-2028].
• ANR PRCI VOXWRITE, Direct Voxel Writing Based on Microfluidics Multi-Material 4D Printing, Principal Investigator, UTBM, Funding: EUR 205,000. [2024-2028]
• EUR-EIPHI BOOST-4D, Partner, UTBM, Funding: EUR 141,000. [2024-2027]
• MITI CNRS Clepsydre 4D, Principal Investigator, UTBM, Funding: EUR 30,000. [2021-2022]
• Pre-maturation CNRS GenIsis, Hybrid 4D printing technology, Principal Investigator, UTBM, Funding: EUR 136,000. [2021-2023]
• ISITE BFC PIA 4D-META, 4D printing and artificial materials, Co-Principal Investigator, UTBM, Funding: EUR 315,000. [2021-2023]
• PIA EUR-EIPHI LYRA, Integrated design and process planning strategies for transformable products by 4D printing, Principal Investigator, UTBM, Funding: EUR 100,000. [2021-2023]
• ISITE BFC PIA HERMES, Spatiotemporal semantics and logical knowledge description of mechanical objects in the era of 4D printing and programmable matter for next-generation of CAD systems, Principal Investigator, UTBM, Funding: EUR 150,000. [2018-2011]
• National BFC Region PAN, Proactive design and geometric representation of transformable and active structures by 4D printing, Principal Investigator, UTBM, Funding: EUR 333,000. [2019-2021]
• National Cluster INGEPROD, High Productive Product-Process Design, Work Package Leader, UTBM, Funding: EUR 400,000. [2011-2014]
• FP7-FoF-ICT PLANTCockpit, Production Logistics and Sustainability Cockpit, Work Package Leader, EPFL, Funding: EUR 480,000. [2010-2011
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Services in International and National Research Activities

• Editor in Journal of Polymer Materials. [2024-now]
• Editorial Board member of the 4D Printing Journal. [2024-now]
• Editorial Board member of the Smart Materials & Methods Journal. [2024-now]
• Editorial Board member of the Smart Manufacturing Journal. [2021-now]
• Editorial Board member of the Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology Journal. [2021-now]
• Editorial Board member of Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science (JIDPS).  [2017-now]
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED). [2024-now].
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES). [2024-now].
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the 4D Materials Design and Additive Manufacturing (4DMDA) conference. [2022-now]
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). [2012-now]
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the CIRP Design Conference. [2018-now]

Expert

• H2020 Europe’s Rail (2022-2024), Italian Ministry of University and Research (2022), Dutch Research Council (NWO) – Applied and Engineering Sciences – Open Technology Programme (2023), ERA-NET CHIST-ERA (2018), Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (SSF) (2023).
• The French National Research Agency (ANR), Digital Models (2013), Industrial revival (2015 et 2016), Factory of the Future (2018, 2019), LabCom V3 (2018), Résilience Hauts-de-France (2020), Projet Institut Carnot MICA (2023), ANRT (2025).

Services in UTBM/ICB

• Member Laboratory Board of ICB UMR 6303 CNRS.  [2020-2025]
• Member Board of Director of UTBM. [2012-2016]
• Member Scientific Board of UTBM. [2016-2020]
• Member Scientific Board of ICB UMR 6303 CNRS. [2016-2020]
• Member Laboratory Board of IRTES-M3M. [2014-2018]
• Member Department Board of Mechanical Engineering Department. [2014-2018]
• Head Product Design and Development Branch [2012-now]
• Head Product Lifecycle Management and Design for X Course [2012-now]
• Etc.

• Design methodologies
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Product Data Management
• Engineering Change Management
• Geometric modeling in PLM
• Manufacturing Process Management
• Design for Manufacturing and Assembly
• Design for Additive Manufacturing
• Assembly Sequence Planning
• Formal semantics in PLM
• Knowledge-based Engineering
• Advanced CAD
• 4D printing technologies
• Design for 4D printing
• Advanced additive manufacturing