Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
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I led the wave-matter interaction modelling and simulation group in the department of Physics at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale and supervised PhD students and postdoctoral research associates. My current interests include electromagnetic wave propagation in complex media, electromechanobiology, biological physics, and computational materials physics.
220+ articles in refereed academic journals
h-index [Google Scholar]: 53 as of 09/20/25.
Number of citations (ref: Google Scholar): 13032 as of 11/25/25.
On Stanford’s top 2% most highly cited scientists list
Author of the book Fundamentals of Polarized Light: A Statistical Optics Approach (Wiley, New York, 1998), 424 pages, ISBN 0-471-14302-2.
Editor of the book Prospects in Filled Polymers Engineering: Mesostructure, Elasticity Network, and Macroscopic Properties, (Research SignPost, Trivandrum, 2008), 301 pages, ISBN 978-81-7895-341-0.
Author of the book Physical Principles of Electro-Mechano-Biology: Multiphysics and Supramolecular Approaches (Springer, 2023), 301 pages, ISBN 978-3-031-37980-2.
Author of the book Electromagnetic Properties of Heterogeneous Materials: Background and Calculation Methods (Elsevier, 2025), 386 pages, ISBN: 97-0-443-333540-2.
Deputy Editor of Journal of Applied Physics
Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK)
Fellow of Optica (USA)
Fellow of the SPIE (USA) 2017 SPIE G. G. Stokes Award (USA)