Ph.D student (2023 – 2026)
Laboratories: Lumière, Matière et Interfaces (LuMIn) & Laboratoire des Méthodes Formelles (LMF) at ENS Paris-Saclay (Room 3×26)
Topic: Multi-scale predictive modelling of microalgae behavior in co-culture with bacteria – from microfluidic systems to photobioreactor
Doctoral school: Electrical, Optical, Bio-physics and engineering
Contact:
- Email: melanie.pietri@ens-paris-saclay.fr
- LinkdIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mélanie-pietri-608431152/
Main research theme
Applied mathematics and signal processing to biological data in the field of bioenergy and biomedical engineering.
Some projects:
- Wolf, J., Chapman, R., Deepika, C., Pietri, M., Bensalem, S., Hankamer, B. (2024). High-Throughput Screening to Accelerate Microalgae-Based Phycochemical Production. In: Abomohra, A., Ende, S. (eds) Value-added Products from Algae. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42026-9_10
- Study of the sensitivity of microalgae to electroporation – Audience reward at Multidisciplinary Junior Congress 2023 organised by Graduate School MRES in University Paris-Saclay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv0WJGiwXo8
- Cell tracking by image processing and machine learning – 20/06/2022 (educational paper): https://eduscol.education.fr/sti/si-ens-paris-saclay/ressources_pedagogiques/suivi-cellulaire-par-traitement-dimages-et-apprentissage#description
Posters
- SPT – CRN 2024 – An SPT workshop on reaction networks
- M2 internship poster – presented at open door of Nikola Tesla department and ENS Paris-Saclay lab presentation
M1 internship poster – presented at open door of Nikola Tesla department and ENS Paris-Saclay lab presentation
Academic background
Academic background at ENS Paris-Saclay
- 2022 / 2023: M2 MVA (Mathematics, Vision, Learning)
- 2021 / 2022: M2 FeSup PSEE (Higher education training in physics of electrical and electronic energy systems)
- 2020 / 2021: M1 D2PFO (Fundamental physics double degree)
- 2020 / 2021: M1 E3A (Electronics, Electrotechnics, Electrical energy and control)
- 2019 / 2020: L3 SAPHIRE (Applied sciences in physics and engineering for research and teaching)
- 2017 / 2019: CPGE PSI (Physics and Engineering Sciences)
- 2016 / 2017: CPGE MPSI (Mathematics, Physique and Engineering Sciences)
Professional background
September 2023 – Now : Teacher at University Paris-Saclay in probability and statistics in L2 Life science (Biology course)
April 2023 – August 2023: Research intern at University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), National Institute of Biology (Slovenia) and LuMIn (France) on the topic « Identifying the genetic determinants of chemical toxicity in micro alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii thanks to statistical analysis – gaussian mixture model estimation »
September 2022 – April 2022: Oral interrogator in CPGE MPSI in Mathematics and PSI in Physics
November 2021 – June 2022: Engineer intern at emka TECHNOLOGIES on the topic: « Study of a system for non-invasive telemetry »
May 2021 – July 2021: Research intern at Luleå University (Sweden), University of Freiburg (Germany) and LuMIn (France) on the topic « Simulation and experimental study of living cell migration exposed to an electric field in a microfluidic system »
September 2020 – June 2021: Oral interrogator in CPGE MPSI in Mathematics