Education:
1971. Baccalauréat série D.

1977. DEA de Biochimie. "Study of the soluble phosphatases of the vesicular and arbuscular (VA) endomycorrhizae".

1979. PhD "Wheat VA endomycorrhizae: variability and biochemical aspects".

Current Activities
Head of a INRA team in Versailles dedicated to the detection of GMO.

Coordinator or member of several national and European research programs on the detection of GMO.

Expert for several GMO related folders such as the ones submitted by European industrial syndicates to the Competent Authorities for the inscription of ingredients in the "negative list" ("Novel food" European regulation).

Coordinator of the French "national network of detection and identification of GMO and derived products".

Chairman of the French AFNOR standardization commission dedicated to the detection of GMO.

Coordinator of the French delegation to the CEN/TC 275/WG 11 standardization working group.

Task-leader of the "Quantitative PCR" ad-hoc group of the European standardization CEN/TC 275/WG 11.

Member of the French "Conseil National de la Consommation" group dedicated to the GMO.

Member or animator of the French delegation to several meetings dedicated to GMO (OECD, EC's JRC meetings of the laboratories working for the Competent authorities, etc.)

Groupe Parois végétales (Plant cell wall group), Société française de phytopathologie (6 years member administration board), Société française de microbiologie, International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, American Society of Phytopathology, American Society of Microbiology.

Chairman of the AFNOR standardization commission about the detection of GMO