Diploma at the International Space University, 1989; doctor of sciences on the immunology and pharmacology at the University of Strasbourg, 1990; doctor of medicine at the University of Toulouse, 1992; in 1996/1997 he worked as adjunct-professor at the International Space University in Strasbourg; at present he works at the ESA in the division of the study of the action of weightlessness on the human organism; one of eight candidates for the STS-90/Neurolab mission as a Payload Specialist, but not selected.