He obtained his PhD in 1993 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook under the guidance of Scott Sieburth.
Following a lecturer position at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC), he was appointed in 1995 by the French National Centre for Scientific Research as a chargé de recherche with Max Malacria.
These studies have also stimulated the development of new redox systems based on the oxidation of anions (enolates, trifluoroborates and silicates).
[3] His group is now involved in the photoactivation of gold-catalyzed processes, notably via photosensitization[4] His third active field of investigation concerns the development of organosilicon Lewis acids and their use in synthesis or as precursors of hypercoordinated silicon species of interest.
[6] He was awarded the Clavel Lespiau Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 2014,[7][8] the Prize of the Division de Chimie Organique of the Société chimique de France in 2016,[9] and the Silver Medal of the French National Centre for Scientific Research in 2017.