Full Professor of physics at UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes (1998 (38) -…) 
Presently Scientific Director of the UGA Design Factory for transitions .
The Design Factory project is : Giving students the ability to imagine creative solutions and the confidence to undertake in a world of transitions.
UGA Design Factory coordinates and develops training programs in creativity, design, entrepreneurship and innovation through active, interdisciplinary teaching methods.
Design, Arts and Sciences  achievements: 
·   Scientific curator of the Soulages Arts&Sciences exhibition « Noir, c’est noir ? » EPFL&Fondation Gandur pour l’Art at Lausanne Switzerland (2016-2017) 
·   Collaboration with Giuseppe Penone for his artwork Essere vento : we pushed sculpture on sand grain down the micrometer size. Essere vento has been exhibited : Corps de Pierre 2017 Chateau Lacoste, Marion Goodman Gallery NYC. Collection François Pinault. Essere vento when in Research Lab 3SR on UGA Campus. 
. Contribution to the book entitled Giuseppe Penone : a question of identity Textes : Giuseppe Penone, Laurent Busine, Guy Tosatto, Joël Chevrier
Textes en anglais.Éditeur(s) : New York : Marian Goodman gallery, 2017.
·   Principal investigator of French ANR 4 year research project Descitech (2014-2018): « Sciences, design and society: the factory of contemporary worlds »
 
Art&Science life :  
All this started for me in 2014 after publication of an article entitled : Les Outrenoirs de Pierre Soulages, obsession d’un physicien ? . As consequences, i) the Swiss Fondation Jean Claude Gandur pour l’art et l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have then invited me as a scientific curator of the Soulages exhibition Noir, c’est noir? Les Outrenoirs de Pierre Soulages, and ii) Pierre Soulages has initiated fascinating conversations with me at his home in Sète. Since then, I have also been involved in collaborations with artists like Giuseppe Penone, Fabienne Verdier, Yoann Bourgeois…
With works of artists such as Pierre Soulages, Olafur Eliasson, Tomas Saraceno, César, Marina Abramovic, Giuseppe Penone, Yohann Bourgeois, Roman Opalka, Fabienne Verdier and many others, I explore how artists and scientists, we can share our views and propose to all a new way to enter a conversation about challenges of our time. 
I then focus on how scientific concepts can inspire new ways of seeing and exploring the world, much like art does. I try to emphasize that both fields share a drive for innovation and creativity. 
I want to contribute to the intersection of art and science, blending elements of both fields in my research and outreach activities. For a physicist, certain universal questions such as motion, light, space, time, matter, water, air… are the bedrock of our lives, and everyone makes them their own. Science produces in-depth knowledge on each one, yet each scientist’s contribution is often no more than a grain of sand. Art, too, takes up these universal questions, but this is another world: each artist enters one or more of these universal questions with her/his unique creativity. My aim is then to explore how to ground my interactions with artists in scientific concepts and in more accessible and aesthetically engaging ways for a large audience. 
Design and Science : 
When developing project-based teaching for/with groups of students, at the heart of the open, complex issues facing humanity today and tomorrow as never before, three key pillars root my ideas: Anthropocene, Science&Design interactions, Art&Science. No surprise, in my pedagogical exploration, interdisciplinarity, design and “Fablab learning by doing” are here somewhat like « oxygen in air we breath ». 
Based on supervision of many workshops with students from various disciplines (2016-…) : Design Factory Université Grenoble Alpes, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble, Ecole de design ENSCI Les Ateliers, Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires Université Paris Cité, Tsinghua University Shenzhen, Central Saint Martins London. Visiting professor at Da Vinci Innovation Center Paris.
With the creation of a lab, the Motion Lab. From 2018 to 2023, The Motion Lab gathered scientists, designers, teachers, students and researchers . Its motto was « The moving body at the heart of learning leveraging digital tools: a new paradigm for education. »
Present research activity at Université Grenoble Alpes: Sensitive Pen 2.0 in collaboration with Interface Human Machine community
Writing is first and foremost movement. Beyond the written message, movement also makes it possible to inscribe subjectivity in the form of writing, adding a singular presence through this sensitive manifestation. Today’s digital pens, like our Sensitive Pen 2.0, are classic pens but with inside at least one IMU (accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer) to record movement well beyond the trace. The first applications are in the field of learning to write and detecting disorders such as dysgraphia (Ana Phelippeau’s thesis supervised by Joël Chevrier, defended in 2024 at Université Paris Cité). This project focuses on the sensitive manifestations of this recording of movement, notably through sound. Writing is the most sophisticated gesture shared by the greatest number of people.
Our hypothesis is that Sensitive Pen 2.0 should make it possible to control sounds, and thus to have a personal and sensitive expression akin to the musical practice of an instrument.