Présentation de Fabrice

I aspire at making instrumentation wonders enabling physics discoveries and providing solution to mitigate climate change. I am now mostly a manager, setting up teams, working out concept, defining strategy and applying for funding. I would love to spend more time in the lab, but it currently seems that I maximize my impact by managing, which is true so long as I attract outstanding individuals and establish effective teams. While I grew up in France, close to Nantes, and did most of my education in France, I have spent most of my adult life in North America. To me, drive and passion are key, which is why I did not thrive in France because shool and early professional life is often akin to a grind, with limited responsibility yet pressure to deliver fairly narrowly defined tasks or exams. At Berkeley, when I was not even a PhD student and then as a postdoc, I led my projects and I made them happen using a variety of skills, with academic (i.e. school acquired) skills being certainly relevant but not critical as any information is available online. Drive is key because in experimental physics most systems don’t work. My mentor at Berkeley taught me to keep it as simple as possible (especially conceptually), keep at it, and always try something when things don’t work. Then, I learned at TRIUMF, to identify individuals who may be outstanding at certain tasks and lean heavily on them. My time is limited to answer inquiries, so contact me if you are interested in driving projects and learning every day on your own terms. Refrain from contact me if you are happy within academic based education system, because while I fully respect this strategy, it is not a strategy that I embrace or even really comprehend. If you want to chat, the best time for me is 7-8am Pacific time, 16-17hEurope on Mondays.