I obtained my PhD in Physical Sciences from the University of Paris XI Orsay (now Paris-Saclay) in 1999, specializing in optics and photonics. My thesis focused on the study of nonlinear light scattering induced by carbon black suspensions under nanosecond and picosecond laser excitations. I then worked for five years in the field of high-speed optical telecommunications, mainly in a research laboratory at Alcatel Research and Innovation in Marcoussis. The activity focused on the design and development of fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) for transmission networks using dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology. In 2004, I joined CEA-DAM to work in the field of shock physics in the so-called cold regime, where matter is subjected to extreme conditions of pressure and temperature. In particular, I studied the phenomenon of micro-jetting, which occurs when a shock wave interacts with surface defects of a metallic material, using an original approach to describe the behavior of matter at the atomic level: molecular dynamics. I continue to study the behavior of matter in extreme conditions, by developing bridges between the worlds of optics and shock physics on the one hand, and experiment, theory and simulation on the other. I am currently interested in studying the impact of hyper-velocity solid/liquid particles on solid and/or liquid surfaces.