Engineer from Ecole Polytechnique (X77) 1980; Degree in Acoustic Physics from the University of Paris 6 (1981); Ph.D. in engineering (1984); one of a group of seven selected CNES astronauts to be trained for flights on the Space Shuttle and the USSR Salyut Space Station; Medical Doctor, 1991; hobbies: Parachuting, rugby, judo; now Professor of Biophysics teaching at the Medical Faculty in F. Rabelais University, Tours - France.