After a career at the CNRS, she was appointed professor at the Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University (1978) and founded the organic biological chemistry laboratory there.
She contributed, with a few others, to the development of this interface sub-discipline at the national level, which was still in its infancy, and created at UPMC adapted teaching courses where chemists and biochemists could meet.
[2] This commission seeks to analyse the origin of the misunderstanding that has developed between chemistry and society, and to contribute to the search for solutions by organising actions resolutely directed towards the general public.
She then turned to mechanistic enzymology, applying the approach used in organic chemistry to the functioning of enzymes.
The main areas covered are : They have shown that it belongs to the newly discovered family of proteins (Fe-S) dependent on S-Adenosylmethionine, catalysing radical reactions.