I received my B.S. from the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la ville de Paris, France, in 1999. My thesis at the Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (Nantes, France) was dedicated to covalent functionalisation of single-wall carbon nanotubes and their use as template in the synthesis of mesoporous materials. After several years as a post-doctoral fellow in the field of chemistry of nanomaterials, I joined LETI in Grenoble, France, in 2006. My current research activities focus on rapid methods in diagnostic microbiology: elastic and inelastic scattering of light, digital microbiology, microbial volatile organic compounds.