The Quantum Technologies and Engineering Erasmus Mundus (QuanTEEM) master degree is a high-level integrated international master degree jointly operated by the University Bourgogne Franche-Comté (France), the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) and the University of Aarhus (Denmark), funded by the EU through its Erasmus+ program.The QuanTEEM master offers a comprehensive program on quantum technologies, covering all its current applications and exploiting a wide range of industrial cooperations.

The Graduate School INTHERAPI (Innovative Therapies, Pharmaco-imaging and multimodal Imaging) has emerged in september 2021 in the framework of the UBFC-InteGrate project funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) through its Projets d'investissements d'Avenir (PIA) program.INTHERAPI Graduate School offers an integrated international research training degree at the master’s and doctorate level. The program is supported by laboratories and the University of Bourgogne‑Franche‑Comté scientific department of “Individualized and comprehensive care.”

The project Light-Matter Interfaces for Quantum-Enhanced Technologies (LIMQUET) is a MSCA-ITN project funded by the EU in the framework of its H2020 program.Led by a consortium of seven academic research groups and four high-tech companies from Germany, France, Bulgaria, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, the project aims at training high-level young researchers through the development of innovative techniques to interface light and matter at the quantum level using atoms, nanostructures and photons, with applications in optics and quantum information processing.

My work lies in the field of computational molecular physics. More specifically, I use electronic structure and nuclear quantum dynamics methods to study ultrafast molecular processes induced by light.These processes include isomerization reactions on the ground electronic state, non-adiabatic dynamics at conical intersections and their control by shaped laser pulses.

Supervisor: Pr. Helen FieldingTitle: Theoretical study of the photochemistry of aniline using ab-initio electronic structure calculationsThe aim of this project was to investigate the photochemistry and photophysics of aniline from a theoretical point of view. A number of recent experimental studies, including time-resolved photoelectron imaging experiments performed in the group of Pr. Helen Fielding, have revealed the existence of highly efficient and ultrafast non-adiabatic decay channels leading the molecule back to its ground electronic state after excitation above 5.2 eV. However, despite the agreement between the available experimental results, their interpretation in term of decay mechanism remains challenging.We have explored the potential energy landscape of aniline in the energy range corresponding to its four lowest electronic states. Specifically, we have characterized the main stationary points and the various pathways connecting the excited states with the ground state. Our findings provided new insight into the complex photodynamics of aniline.