I am a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow and physicist at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute. As a member of the Mathis Group, I investigate the physical principles underlying the origin of life. My research integrates statistical mechanics, information theory, and evolutionary dynamics to understand how spatial environments drive the emergence of complexity.
I completed my PhD at the Université de Montréal in 2025. My thesis, La spatialité dans l’évolution prébiotique : vers une physique de l’émergence de la complexité (Spatiality in prebiotic evolution: toward a physics of the emergence of complexity), explored how spatial structure can shape the emergence of molecular and evolutionary complexity.
I also maintain the Origin of Life Digest, and I’m a member of the Origin of Life Early Career Network (OoLEN), serving on its Executive Board since 2022.
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