Work in the frame of the Human Resources for a Europe of Knowledge action which aims to support European policy-makers and other stakeholders in the design and implementation of the policies related to the human resources in science and technology and universities.

• Domain of expertise:
  - Higher education and research.
  - Human resources in science and technology; doctoral and postdoctoral labor markets.
  - International mobility/migration of highly qualified people and researchers.
• Academic fields:
  - Labour economics and economics of education (school-to-work transition, job satisfaction, professional labour markets).
  - Applied microeconometrics (qualitative and limited dependent variable models, sample selection problems).
  - Economics of innovation (national systems of innovation, technological change).
  

• Integrated Information System on European Researchers (IPTS, 2005-07).
• The brain drain of PhDs from Europe to the United States, EUI-RSCAS, 2004-05.
• The career outcomes of recent doctoral graduates, IREDU-Céreq-LEST, 2002-03.
• R&D activities of S&E doctorates, IREDU, 2001-03.
• A comparison of the entry in the labour market of French and US S&E graduates (during my doctoral stay at SPRU, 2001-02).

• “The Brain Drain of PhDs from Europe to the United States: What we Know and What We Would Like to Know”, EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2006/11.
• “Doctorates and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering: the European Union in the International Competition”, European Journal of Education, 40(4), Sep-Dec 2005.
• "Les personnels scientifiques temporaires : ce que nous savons et ce que nous aimerions savoir", Les chantiers Ressources Humaines dans le cadre du projet pour le CNRS, CNRS, 2005, 53 p.
• “Fostering the Development of Human Resources in S&T” in Avveduto S. (ed.), Fostering the Development of Human Resources in Science and Technology, Biblink, Rome, 2004, pp. 363-383.
• "La dynamique des flux", in L'attractivité des filières scientifiques et techniques, ASPERT, 2004.
• “A Double Gender-Family Inequality Phenomenon in the International Mobility of Young Researchers”, MCFA-Euroscience-Eurodoc-PINet, 2004.
• "Les spécificités des études doctorales et de l’insertion des docteurs en LSHS : une brève note", Droit D’Entrée, 2003.
• "Les déterminants de l'abandon en thèse : étude à partir de l'enquête Génération 98 du Céreq" with Murdoch J. and Paul J.-J.), in Giret J.-F. et al. (eds.), 2003, pp. 479-490.
• "La mobilité internationale temporaire des scientifiques français : modalités et conséquences" in Euzéby C. et al. (eds.), Mondialisation et régulation sociale, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2003, pp. 557-574.
• "Vers la généralisation progressive d’un monitorat d’initiation à l’enseignement supérieur révisé et élargi : une réponse aux enjeux et tensions actuels de la formation des enseignants du supérieur ?", AFEC, 2002, 24 p.
• "Diversité des post-doctorats et insertion professionnelle des docteurs", MSU, 2002, 51 p.

• 2004-05: Jean Monnet fellow at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (Florence, Italy). Participation in the European Forum 2004-05: “The Role of Universities in the Innovation Systems”. Directed by Rikard Stanckiewicz (EUI) and coordinated by Aldo Geuna (SPRU). Development of a project on the brain drain of European researchers.
• 2002-04: Teaching and Research Attaché at the Institute for Research in the Sociology and Economics of Education (IREDU, France). Teaching duties: Descriptive statistics (undergraduate); Economics of education (graduate); Macroeconomic dynamics and economic growth (graduate); Labour economics (post-graduate). Research at IREDU.
• 2001-02: Doctoral fellow at SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK). Supervisor: Keith Pavitt (SPRU). Programme: Marie Curie Training Site, European Doctoral School in the Economics of Technological and Institutional Change.
• 1999-02: Moniteur at the University of Bourgogne, Institute for Research in the Sociology and Economics of Education (IREDU, France). Teaching duties: Descriptive statistics (undergraduate); Mathematics (undergraduate); Mathematical statistics (undergraduate); Macroeconomics (undergraduate); Introduction to economics and history of economic thoughts (undergraduate). Research at IREDU.

• Ph.D. in economics. University of Bourgogne, France. Ph.D. Thesis: "The evolutions of the system of innovation and the labour market of young scientists."
• Master's degree in economics. Major fields: Economics of education; Development economics; Econometrics.
• Graduate studies in economics. Major fields:  Macroeconomics and economic growth; Microeconomics, public economics and industrial economics; Statistics and econometrics; Labour economics; Development economics; History of political economy; Social sciences (sociology, demography).

Other research activities

• Participation in the European Forum 2004-05, European University Institute, 2004-05.
• Working group on “Human resources: Employment and scientific careers”, CNRS, 2004-05.
• Involvment in the PRIME network of excellence (Policies for Research and Innovation in the Move Towards the European Research Area), 2003-04.
• Participation in the CRESIAP network (Consortium sur le Recherche, l’Enseignement Supérieur, l’Innovation et l’Action Publique), 2002.
• Participation in the European Doctoral School in the Economics of Technological and Institutional Change, 2001-02.
• Member of the European Political Economy Infrastructure Consortium network (LSE-EUI-WZB-Juan March), 2000-01.

Conferences and workshops

• PRIME-ENIP conference “Indicators on Science, Technology and Innovation - History and new Perspectives”, Lugano, November 16th-18th, 2006.
• NSF-SRS workshop “Using Human Resource Data from Science Resources Statistics, National Science Foundation, To Study the Science and Engineering Workforce”, Washington, October 19th-20th, 2006.
• OECD-Statistics Canada “Blue Sky II 2006 - What indicators for Science, Technology and Innovation Policies in the 21st Century?”, Ottawa, September 25th-27th, 2006.
• CESE conference 2006 “Changing knowledge and education”, Granada, July 3rd-6th, 2006.
• Workshop on “Feasibility of indicators for researchers’ geographical mobility and career paths”, OST, Paris, July 12th-13th, 2006.
• Joint OECD-Spanish Ministry of Education and Science workshop, “Researcher careers for the 21st century”, Ministry of Education and Science, Madrid, April 26th-28th, 2006.
• Workshop on “Indicators for researchers’ geographical mobility and career paths”, Seville, March 15th-16th, 2006.
• 2nd Annual Conference of the ERA-MORE network, Bled, Slovenia, November 17, 2005.
• Final conference of the European Forum 2004-05 “The Role of Universities in Innovation Systems”. EUI, Florence, June 16-17, 2005.
• CNRS seminars on the human resources for S&T, Paris, February, March, April, May and June, 2005.
• Conférence « Les Docteurs et l’emploi », Séance commune Académie des Sciences-Académie des Technologies, Paris, December 15th, 2004.
• EUI seminar The brain drain of PhDs”, European University Institute, Florence, November 11th, 2004.
• Séminaire: « L’insertion professionnelle des jeunes docteurs : quelques enseignements des enquêtes du Céreq », Doctoriales DGA-X-Paris VI, Fréjus, May 28th, 2004.
• Conférence CRESIAP, ENS de Cachan, Paris, April 8th, 2004.
• Séminaire : « Le marché du travail des docteurs : évolutions et perspectives », CIES, Dijon, April 15th-16th, 2004.
• Conference on “Early Stage Researcher Mobility in Europe”, MCFA-Euroscience-Eurodoc-PiNet, Lisbon, February 25th-27th, 2004.
• Conference on “The attractiveness of scientific studies and careers” and “Gender issues on scientific studies and careers” (Colloque ASPERT/Femmes & Sciences), Paris, January 9th-10th, 2004.
• Workshop on the specificities of the Ph.D. training and careers in social sciences and humanities, Paris, November 29th, 2003.
• IXèmes Journées de sociologie du travail), Paris, November 27th-28th, 2003.
• PRIME workshop, Brighton, November 11th.-12th, 2003.
• XXIIIe Journées de l’Association d’Economie Sociale, Grenoble, September 11th-12th, 2003.
• PRIME workshop, Pisa, July 9th-13th, 2003.
• 9th OECD Global Science Forum, Paris, June 29th-July 1st, 2003.
• 15th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics (SASE 2003), June 26th-28th, 2003.
• Journées Biotechno 2003, Nancy, June 12th, 2003.
• CNR-OECD Workshop on “Fostering the Development of Human Resources for Science and Technology”, Rome, June 5th-6th, 2003.
• Journées d'études sur les données longitudinales dans l'analyse du marché du travail, Céreq-Lasmas, Caen, May 21st-23rd, 2003.
• Conference on “The Paradoxes of Happiness in Economics”, University Milan-Bicocca, Milan, March 21-23.
• Journée scientifique du RESUP, University Paris X Nanterre, Paris, March 7th, 2003.
• Symposium on “The Scientific Careers in Europe”, Focus Research, Brussels, December 15th-16th, 2002.
• PRIME workshop, Paris, November 28th, 2002.
• Journée d’étude du Dispositif d’observations décentralisées des carrières et de l’insertion des docteurs, Paris, November 21st, 2002.
• 15e colloque international de l’ADMEE Europe, Lausanne, September 5th-7th, 2002.
• 19èmes Journées de micro-économie appliquée, Rennes, June 6th-7th, 2002.
• European Society for Population Economics conference, Bilbao, June 13th-15th, 2002.
• Journées de l'AFSE, Lyon, May 16th-17th, 2002.
• Conference “Le marché du travail et l’emploi des docteurs” MSU-IREDU, Dijon, March 28th-29th, 2002.
• SPRU seminar, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, December 6th, 2001.
• 12th Summer School of the European Economic Association (EEA)-4th IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn) Summer School in Labor Economics, Buch, September 10th-16th, 2001.
• DRUID's Nelson and Winter Conference, Aalborg, June 12th-15th, 2001.
• Journées d'études sur les données longitudinales dans l'analyse du marché du travail, Céreq-Lasmas, Marseille, May 17th-18th, 2001.
• ZEW Conference: "Unemployment: causes and cures", Berlin, April 2nd-3rd, 2001.
• EPIC conference, Corfu, February 22nd-26th, 2001.
• European Summer School on Industrial Dynamics, IMRI-Université Paris IX Dauphine, Cargèse, September 10th-17th, 2001.
• EPIC workshop, Corfu, Greece, May 25th-31st, 2001.