2001, PhD in the study of a new spintronics phenomena: the spin transfer torque. Two years of post-doc, first at Groningen University, Netherlands, then at Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, France. 2005, joined CNRS. Research Director, CNRS/Thales lab, France. Current research interests include spintronics (dynamics of nanomagnets under the spin torque effect) and new devices for cognitive computation (in particular memristors). 2009, initiated the nanodevices for bio-inspired computing team and now leading it. Chair, interdisciplinary research network BioComp, coordinating national efforts to progress towards the hardware realization of bio-inspired systems. Has over 75 publications. Frequent speaker at international conferences. Recipient of honours: Jacques Herbrand prize, French Academy of Science (2010), for pioneering work on spin transfer; European Research Council grant (2010) for "NanoBrain" project on Memristive Artificial Synapses and their integration in Neural Networks.