Career

I began my scientific career in many-body physics and did my thesis work at the State University of New York at Stony Brook on neutrino double decay and its role in testing the standard model of particle physics.

Since 1994, I have changed my research interests to the study of electromagnetic fields interacting with ordered and disordered inhomogeneous media.

My work involving the propagation of electromagnetic waves in complex media has largely been concerned with the transition or T matrices of multiple scattering systems, and their role in calculating experimental cross sections, optical forces, statistical averages, and the applications to transport theories. I have also recently been involved in the development of a differential theory for the calculation of T-matrices of individual non-spherical scatterers.

These studies were carried out in the context of government and industrial contracts for the French atomic energy commission (CEA/CESTA), and in the ``Laboratoire d'Optique des Solides'' (currently part of the ``Institut des NanoSciences de Paris'') at the University of Paris VI.

I am currently a ``Maître de Conférence'' at the Univ. de Provence France, and a member of the ``Institut Fresnel'' of Marseille France.