She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and the director of the Fresnel Institute in Marseille (France) also affiliated with the Mosaic advanced photonics group within the institute.
[2] After postdoctoral research at Stanford University in California with William E. Moerner, she returned to France in 2000 as an assistant professor at the École normale supérieure de Cachan.
In 2006, she moved to Aix-Marseille University and in 2009 she was named a director of research within the CNRS.
[3] In 2022 she won the Léon Brillouin grand prize of the French Optical Society (La Société Française d'Optique), the first female winner of this prize.
[1] She was named a Fellow of Optica, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for advancing fundamental knowledge of molecular nonlinear optics and application to polarization-resolved nonlinear and super resolution orientation microscopy".