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Arnaud Lazarus received his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France, in 2008. He completed post-doctoral work in Paris and joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as an associate researcher from 2010 to 2013. In 2013, he became an associate professor at Sorbonne Université in Paris, France, at the research institute Jean le Rond d'Alembert. In 2024, he took a one-year sabbatical with Katia Bertoldi’s group at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, and he joined the Department of Mathematics at MIT as an invited associate professor. His current research interests include stability in dynamical systems with a particular focus on Floquet theory, mechanics of slender elastic structures, and hydrodynamic quantum analogs.