Graduate from the École Centrale de Lyon (1979), he starts his career as hardware design engineer on the Mirage 2000. He has done a career in aerospace industry before joining higher education in 2002 as head of "École supérieure des techniques aéronautiques et de construction automobile" at Levallois-Perret. In September 2009, he became head of the "Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées". Francis Pollet replaces him in March 2017.