He contributed to the construction of the world’s first superconducting alternator and the ATLAS particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC, CERN).

Training and career

After graduating as an engineer from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, he received a DEA and interned at the Culham Science Centre, near Oxford, where the Joint European Torus, the largest tokamak ever built, was being developed.