1971 : Engineer of ” National Chemistry School of Strasbourg”
1976 : PhD : Contribution to the study of smectic polymorphism, (supervisor Dr. A. Skoulios) at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg
1986 : Habilitation in Chemistry of Materials at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg

 Structure of low molecular weight and polymeric liquid-crystalline phases
 Self-organisation of dendritic architectures
 Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett thin films

 1971 : Stagiaire de Recherches CNRS
 1973 : Attaché de Recherche CNRS
 1977-1978 : Post-doctoral stay in AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
 1979 : Assistant-Director of Research CNRS
 1986 : Director of Research CNRS at Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials of Strasbourg (IPCMS)
 1998-2002 : Invited Researcher at “Centre of Condensed Matter Physics” (Lisboa)
 1989- : Leader of Organic Materials Group at IPCMS
 2002- : Duty-Director of IPCMS (www.ipcms.unistra.fr)

 1998-2002 : Secretary of “International Liquid Crystals Society”
 2004- : Vice-President of “International Liquid Crystals Society”

 Guest Editor of Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. (Vols 328 to 332, 362)
 Editorial Board of the Journal Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. (Taylor & Francis)