## Research

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##### Operadic Formality and Homotopy of Configuration Spaces
###### Najib Idrissi – PhD Thesis, Université Lille 1, 2017.
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##### Swiss-Cheese Operad and Drinfeld Center
###### Najib Idrissi – Israel J. Math. 221.2, pp. 941–927, 2017.
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## Blog

##### Kafka in the stars
###### 2018-03-16 #job

This is a cautionary tale, with the hope that this post could help future applicants for permanent academic positions in France.

This past month, I’ve had the pleasure of applying for maître de conférences jobs – roughly equivalent to associate professor. It turned out to be a singularly more complicated process than I expected. The actual scientific part of the application was rather easy, as I already had to do it when I applied for a chargé de recherche (“junior scientist”) job at CNRS in December, and my research statements, CV… didn’t change much since then. The administrative part was the kafkaesque part.

##### Defense, postdoc, new paper
###### 2018-02-05 #math #job #conf-spaces #paper
Many changes have happened in my life recently! I defended my PhD on November 17th. I guess I’m a doctor now! There are too many people to thank for that, so please see the “Thanks” section of my thesis. I am now entering the scary world of job applications. I am discovering the wonderful “GALAXIE” web application – fellow French job applicants know my pain. Fortunately, starting on February 1st, I have had the chance of becoming a postdoc at ETH Zürich in the group of Thomas Willwacher, funded by his ERC grant 678156–GRAPHCPX.
##### En français, s'il-vous-plaît !
###### 2017-12-29 #blog

My website is now available in French! It is possible to change the language using the menu. A big part of the content is translated, blog posts excepted – they remain in English.