Who I am
Background
It all starts as a kid: whole weekends in the forest, and those hours at the natural history museum, glued to the hall devoted to the history of the Earth. That fascination never left me. At 18, I devote my secondary-school final thesis to global warming, then throw myself into studying geography: understanding how the Earth system works, how landscapes are shaped by natural forces and human action alike, the dynamics of ecosystems and the threats hanging over them.
I turned that urge to help preserve the environment into a job. For more than fifteen years, as a researcher then a scientific officer, I move between climate, water, energy, agrometeorology, biodiversity, mobility, territory, at the crossroads of the Earth sciences and social and environmental issues. That multidisciplinarity became my expertise: diving into a new domain and quickly grasping its logic and its stakes. Along the way: ice-drilling campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctica.
Data, for its part, imposed itself: ever-heavier datasets that simply had to be tamed. I taught myself on the job, and turned the constraint into a skill. There I discovered code as a craft, where creativity counts as much as rigour.
My compass hasn’t changed: the scientific method, to cut bias and decide on facts rather than impressions. Self-taught on the software side, I keep pragmatic reflexes: proven technologies over the latest fad, reproducible and version-controlled work, open source for accessibility, transparency and durability. And one central skill: understanding a business need and turning it into a solution that works, that can be audited, and that makes data intelligible for the people who decide.
Beyond work
The same rigour that guides my work makes me clear-eyed about the state of the world: when you look the data in the face (the crossing of the planetary boundaries, for one), it’s hard to sit on your hands. More a generalist than a specialist, attentive to the systemic dynamics of the environmental crisis, I try to frame every decision within a global perspective, to avoid the pitfall of solutions that fix one part of the problem while shifting another. My commitments carry that coherence forward, through my interests in permaculture, self-building, digital sovereignty and the bioregionalist movement.
The rest of the time, I love escaping to the mountains, running in the forest, weaving through the city on my bike, crafting playlists that distil very specific musical moods, mixing electronic music, getting my hands in the soil, and philosophising about the origin of the universe and of life, as well as the nature of consciousness, never tiring of the wonder the living world fills me with.
You don’t need to share all my convictions for us to work well together: just a project where reliable data helps make a decision, and a bit of common ground. Data, geospatial, reproducibility: if that’s your world, let’s talk.