Maxime is a CNRS Senior researcher (Directeur de Recherche), hired by CNRS in 2008 in Institut Néel, Grenoble, France. He and his coworkers collaborated with EQUS CI Volz on the quantum engines and instruments program in the domain of light-matter-phonon interactions in semiconductor nano-systems. Specifically they worked on non-equilibrium thermodynamics of polariton quantum fluids and optomechanics with levitated objects in the light-matter strong-coupling regime.