Nicolas is Senior Lecturer in geophysics at the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong. He graduated in 2010 with a PhD in Earth Sciences from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France and The University of Sydney. He was a postdoctoral research associate and postdoctoral fellow at The University of Sydney from 2010 to 2016 and an ARC DECRA Fellow from 2016 to 2019. His main research interests are in global geodynamics and in the influence of deep-Earth processes on the evolution of Earth's surface.