Awarded an ARC grant in 2025 for the MAR.ai project (with Xavier Fettweis) to build an AI emulator of the MAR regional climate model
Awarded an FRS-FNRS MIS grant in 2024 on foundation models for science
Awarded an FRS-PDR grant in 2023 on particle physics event generation with deep neural networks (with Fabio Maltoni and Tilman Plehn)
Released Appa in April 2025: a 1.5B-parameter probabilistic weather model for global data assimilation
Supervised multiple PhD theses on topics including simulation-based inference, exoplanet atmospheric characterization, wavefront sensing, and robotic grasping
Background
Computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence for science
Currently a Professor at the University of Liège, Belgium
Research focuses on deep learning models and statistical methods for scientific applications, with emphasis on (Bayesian) inverse problems in the physical sciences
Group leader of the Science with AI Lab (SAIL) at the Montefiore Institute
Works on interdisciplinary projects in particle physics, astronomy, and weather science