I am a senior researcher at Inria, working at LIRMM in Montpellier.

I head the Zenith research team that deals with scientific data management.

I am the scientific advisor for the LeanXcale startup that develops a next generation Hybrid Transactional Analytics Processing (HTAP) DBMS.

• What is data? (in french) Les données en question.
• I have been awarded the 2014 Inria - Académie des Sciences - Dassault Systems Innovation Prize.
• Principles of Distributed Database Systems - Fourth Edition with Springer is upcoming, with major revision of previous chapters and addition on new material on big data, NoSQL, web data integration and blockchain.
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