He has collaborated extensively with Storrs Olson of the Smithsonian Institution on palaeornithological research on the extinct birds of New Caledonia in the south-west Pacific region.
Jean-Christophe worked with Jacques Cousteau on Calypso and later was founder and manager of the Clinic for Oiled Sea Birds from 1978 supertanker wreck Amoco Cadiz.
The company specialized in environmental forensics, consultancy and expertise, science and technology, regulations and standards, surveys, analysis, compliance, anticipation and management issues in various industries.
USAF Flight Surgeon Dr Harry Hoffman, Australian Toxicologist and French Forensic scientist Jean-Christophe Balouet's published after much international research, the term aerotoxic syndrome on 20 October 1999 to describe the acute and chronic human ill health caused by exposure to toxic oil fumes in most commercial jets.
Jean-Christophe Balouet authored 96 peer-reviewed publications and his works have been translated into many languages with him contributing to over 300 articles, 150 radio and 70 TV programs in 12 countries.