Jean-Philippe Colombier was graduated in 2002 from University of Lyon and performed his PhD at the Atomic Energy Commission with a degree in 2005. After a postdoctoral position at the Paris observatory, he joined the Jean Monnet University of St Etienne as an associate professor in 2007 and was promoted professor in 2017 to establish a scientific direction focused on multi-scale simulations of ultrafast laser-matter interaction. His current research interests include fundamental processes of the interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with matter, simulations from ab initio to continuum models and modelling with emphasis in photonics and condensed matter.