My focus on poetry centres specifically on versification, as a set of stylistic devices and as a remarkable path towards poetics interpretation.

After being a visiting researcher at University of California, Berkeley, (2007-2009), and at University of Leeds (UK) (2009-2012), I received my PhD in 2013 from Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle with highest honours, for a dissertation titled "Raymond Queneau's Versification: a Statistical Approach Using a Database", which provided the matter of a monograph,Des Chiffres et des mètres, published at Éditions Honoré Champion.

I joined Basel’s French Studies seminar in 2016 thanks to a postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, to conduct my own research project around "Metrics and Free Verse, Interdisciplinary Approach to a Poetic Form". This is also when I became an associate member of the French ATILF-CNRS Lab in Nancy.

In 2017, I organised the first Plotting Poetry conference in Basel and, soon after, founded the Plotting Poetry group with the help of Petr Plechac and Pablo Ruiz Fabo, a loose network of scholars interested in poetry and quantitative explorations. So far, we have published three collective volumes, and organised international conferences in Berlin (2018), Nancy (2019), Tartu (2022); Budapest (2023), Einsiedeln (2024); Prague (2025), and counting! 

In 2019, I received a professorial grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, to build a new team around the project “Mining the Comic Verse (Le Rire des vers)”, which explores the interactions of humour and versification and develops the JIGS, a tool for annotating humour, which we apply to a large, digital corpus of versified texts. In 2023, we organised in Basel a conference on humour and taste: Tasting Funny?, and are now planning a special issue at the European Journal of Humour Research.