- Advanced technical courses on designing, integrating and deploying systems in polar conditions.
- Fieldwork and first-hand discovery of the constraints specific to Arctic environments.
- Courses taken:
- AE-343 – Arctic Renewable Energy Systems : design and integration of renewable energy systems adapted to Arctic constraints, with a project management approach.
- AE-342 – Arctic Energy Meteorology : study of the weather conditions that shape solar and wind potential, through measurements, forecasts and fieldwork.
- AT-334 – Arctic Marine Measurements : marine measurements and operations in the Arctic: remote sensing, robotics, drones and underwater vehicles, with hands-on practice in the field.
- These courses complete a systems engineering approach applied to extreme environments.
- This experience will be documented gradually in the blog.
A scientific education focused on complex systems.
This page details each step of my academic journey.
International semester Arctic technologies and systems engineering in extreme environments University Centre in Svalbard – UNIS
A semester focused on polar environments, fieldwork and systems designed for extreme conditions.
International summer school Summer school on the future of aviation Beihang University
12-day international summer school in Hangzhou on the risks of new air and energy mobility: lectures, hands-on workshops (drones, simulators, 3D rendering), industrial visits and a cultural immersion with 84 students from 8 countries.
- Risks in New Aviation and New Energy programme: 21 hours of lectures, 18 hours of cultural activities and 21 hours of experimentation.
- Speakers from Beihang, ENAC, Paris-Saclay, Politecnico di Milano, TU Dresden, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Kansai Airports and Boeing.
- Artificial intelligence, predictive maintenance and digital twins applied to aviation; drone operations.
- Exchanges with academic and industrial partners: Politecnico di Milano, Paris-Saclay and Dassault Systèmes.
- Training in drone-based rendering and 3D model generation.
- Cultural immersion: hands-on workshops, archaeological visits to Liangzhu and the Cainiao Group technology hub.
- Intercultural exchanges with 80 students from 8 countries.
ENAC engineering programme Civil engineer training École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile – ENAC
Major in Air Transport IT Systems, minors in Drones and Entrepreneurship. An engineering curriculum at the crossroads of computing, aeronautics and complex systems.
Gap year – September 2025 – July 2026
Semester 8 – Second year – SITA, February 2025 – June 2025
- Language theory and compilers.
- Avionics and aeronautical networks.
- Event-driven programming and human-machine interface design.
- Object-oriented programming and project management.
- Air transport applied project: analysing ADS-B antenna data with Java, MongoDB and a graphical interface to visualise the data on a map.
- Air traffic management/control concepts: SESAR, NextGen, ASAS and economics.
- Entrepreneurship minor: a cargo drone project for extreme regions, with a use case supporting French Polar Institute missions in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Pitch, business plan and intellectual property.
Semester 7 – Second year – SITA, September 2024 – January 2025
- Computer architecture and operating systems.
- Communication networks and interconnections.
- System and parallel programming.
- Artificial intelligence and algorithmic complexity.
- IT security and ATC simulations.
- OCaml/AI project: automatic crossword grid generation.
- Drones minor: UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) systems and autonomy, conceptual aircraft design, airspace integration and certification, embedded hardware and software. Regulation project: drone rescue in the Pyrenees, using SORA and ConOps.
Semester 6 – First year – Common core, February 2024 – June 2024
- Air operations and avionics: flight mechanics, cockpit environment, autonomous navigation and control systems.
- ATM and telecommunications: air traffic control simulation, waves and propagation, surveillance and ATM systems.
- Mathematics: statistics and combinatorial optimisation.
- Computing: database management systems, web applications, networks and communications.
- Group project: a website to track sugar consumption.
- Professional skills: requirements engineering, ergonomics, international civil aviation bodies and air transport economics.
Semester 5 – First year – Common core, September 2023 – January 2024
- Air operations and safety: choosing an aircraft for its mission, solid mechanics, principles of flight.
- Air traffic management: general meteorology, air traffic regulations and approach procedures.
- Avionics and telecommunications: navigation, conventional radio navigation, signal processing and satellite navigation.
- Mathematics: complex analysis, measure theory, probability and numerical analysis.
- Computing: programming, algorithms, architecture, operating systems, Unix and shells.
- Group project in Python: a car race simulation.
- Professional skills: English, general economics, project management and physical education.
Activities and student life
- Study monitoring lead at the ENVOL junior enterprise.
- President of the improvisation workshop: organising shows, communication, team management.
- Activities with international students: improvisation, a debate club and the Buddy Program.
- Peer tutoring programme between students and alumni.
- CSR lead for a student union slate: organised an improvisation show to raise awareness of sexist and sexual violence.
- Two entries in the pitch competition (jury’s favourite) and two participations in the Fly Impulse hackathon.
- Organised the alumni careers conference for engineering students, in charge of speaker invitations (LinkedIn post).
- Visit to Dassault Aviation (LinkedIn post).
- Took part in Les États de l’air (LinkedIn post).
- Gap year 2025 – 2026: why I dared to pause my studies (LinkedIn post).
- Chinese classes in the first semester of the first year.
Prépa des INP Integrated scientific preparatory cycle La Prépa des INP – Grenoble
Second phase of the integrated preparatory class (semester 4). Deeper scientific work and a first contact with data science, AI and industrial engineering.
- Core mathematics: normed vector spaces and Euclidean endomorphisms.
- Applied mathematics: numerical ODEs and linear algebra.
- Data science, artificial intelligence and telecommunications.
- Industrial engineering: operations research and systems engineering.
- Projects: a money box with automatic coin detection, a neural network for image recognition and a mathematical analysis of the dog curve (tractrix).
Prépa des INP Integrated scientific preparatory cycle La Prépa des INP – Baimbridge high school, Guadeloupe
First phase of the integrated preparatory class (semesters 1, 2 and 3), combining science, projects and a Guadeloupean immersion.
- Host family at weekends, excellence boarding school during the week.
- Class delegate.
- Practised windsurfing, catamaran sailing, surfing and dinghy sailing.
- Got my level 1 scuba diving certificate.
- Theatre workshop, performing the play Yo té pou nou sé, about historical figures of the French West Indies.
- Guadeloupean Creole classes.
- Semester 3 specialisation: majors in mathematics and physics; minors in computing and ecology-geology.
- Project: a flashcard app in Python.
Summer school Summer school in sustainable development and entrepreneurship Polytechnique Montréal
- Workshops in sustainable development and technology entrepreneurship.
- Designed a sustainable city model in five days, within a group of fifteen students from North America, South America and Europe.
- Took a leading role in how the group worked: collecting ideas on a wall board open to everyone, setting up themed subgroups with a reporter to present progress, and regular plenary updates on each member’s work.
- Lesson learned: cultural diversity enriches ideas, and solutions to complex problems benefit from structured group work and each member’s creativity.
- Elected best participant.
- Awarded two scholarships for future studies at Polytechnique Montréal.
Baccalauréat Scientific baccalauréat – highest honours Alphonse Daudet high school
- Specialities in the penultimate year (4 hours a week each): mathematics, physics-chemistry and life and earth sciences.
- In the final year (6 hours a week each): mathematics and physics-chemistry.
- Took part in the Mathematics Olympiads in the penultimate year.
- Options:
- Advanced mathematics in the final year (3 hours a week).
- European section in English: English-speaking culture and mathematics taught by a British teacher.
- English practice:
- Weekly debate club run by American speakers, from the first year to the final year.
- Citizenship debate days in English at the Pierre Mendès France high school in Montpellier (2019 and 2020).
- Commitments:
- Student representative: class delegate from the first year to the final year, eco-delegate in the penultimate year.
- Member of the student council, the school board and the educational, health and safety, health and citizenship education, and catering committees.
- Organised and moderated around ten meetings, splitting projects into subgroups and reporting back to the whole group in plenary sessions, in the amphitheatre or remotely.
- Member of the students’ house (Maison des Lycéens).
- Member of the Jeunes et Citoyens club: introduction to law and legal careers, with discussions on the rights of minorities, women and children.
- Charity projects in the final year: toy, food and essential goods collections for humanitarian causes; a Women’s Rights week (conferences, themed days, a film screening, portraits of women); a rose sale for Valentine’s Day.
- Volunteered with the Secours Populaire Français charity, 2016 to 2018 and again in 2020.
- Two years of theatre, performing the play Rouge by Emmanuel Darley and Maïanne Barthès.
General education Brevet diploma – highest honours Jean Rostand middle school
First steps in learning languages and opening up to the world.
- Started learning English and German.
- Studied Latin throughout middle school.
- Volunteered with the Secours Populaire Français charity, from 2016 to 2018.
- Language exchange in Freiburg, Germany, hosted by a pen friend.
- Cultural and historical trip to Munich, Germany.
- National brevet diploma with highest honours (820/800).
General education Primary school Armand Barbès primary school
First learning steps and discovery of theatre (3 years of practice).