I have always admired versatility.
I am not trying to be the best specialist in a single niche.
I am trying to become a connector – a polymath who knows enough about many fields to bring the right people, questions, and tools together.
My strengths are idea generation, pattern recognition, and to sense who belongs where. I read across physics, chemistry, deep tech, social sciences, and psychology, and I enjoy seeing links that others don’t notice. At 41, in the middle of a transformation, I accepted that errors and detours have been part of the price of becoming myself.
Since my PhD in physics (2012), I’ve led two research groups working across mathematics, computational chemistry, and high-tech development. Some of publications of co-authored have been cited by Nobel prize awardee, by world-renowned research groups and patents I co-signed became cross-disciplinary.
What I’m really looking for is a hot spot where my curiosity, my work, my creativity, and my personal life align – a space where I can build a family and where my mind, heart, and time are completing each others.
My main organs are: a sharp intuition, talented people, national supercomputers, a quantum computer, and the ability to recover my energy when it is needed.
Looking forward to the future together.
Thibault J.-Y. Derrien, Ph. D.