Gamma-ray astronomy with the SPI spectrometer of the INTEGRAL satellite, from instrumental and microelectronic design to galactic nucleosynthesis and antimatter

This writing presents my application for obtaining the accreditation to supervise researches at the University of Paris 7 Denis Diderot. It is divided into a first part (this chapter) detailing my career development, followed by the accreditation dissertation itself (starting on page 5). First of all, I would like to detail my professional career, which seems relatively atypical to me, within three departments of IRFU of CEA Saclay, which have greatly enriched me personally and professionally. Then I present my curriculum vitae, which summarizes my studies, my professional experience and my areas of expertise, and I list my scientific, technical and administrative responsibilities, particularly in physics and gamma astronomy projects, in which I participated. I continue with a chronological summary of my work and research activities, I summarize my supervisory activities both at the scientific level and at the level of the projects in which I participated, and I draw up the list of my communication activities and participation in international conferences. Finally I present the statistics on all of my publications, the complete list of which is given in the Appendix (page XVI), in reverse chronological order, where I noted by (*) or (**) publications that are relevant to the subject covered in this manuscript. I also detail my main publications which serve as a basis for the discussion in the part of the dissertation itself. (author)