Doktorate of veterinary medicine from "l'Ecole Veterinaire de Maison-Alfort", 1975; one of a group of six selected CNES astronauts to be trained for flights on the Space Shuttle and the USSR Salyut Space Station; one of eight candidates for the STS-90/Neurolab mission as a Payload Specialist, but not selected; hobbies: mountaineering; currently working for CNES in Paris (coordination of spaceflight activities).