Graduate from the Paris Diderot University in molecular biology, he starts his career as assistant at the "Collège de France" in 1990. In 1994, he became lecturer at the "Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines". In 2001, he is appointed head of training at the "École pratique des hautes études" before entering in 2006 as teacher at the "Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines". Alongside his teaching activities, he is a researcher at the Laboratory of Genetics and Cell Biology, responsible of the "stress and cell death" team.