Diploma at the International Space University,
1989; doctor of sciences on the immunology and pharmacology at the University
of Strasbourg, 1990; doctor of medicine at the University of Toulouse, 1992; in
1996/1997 he worked as adjunct-professor at the International Space University
in Strasbourg; at present he works at the
ESA in
the division of the study of the action of weightlessness on the human
organism; one of eight candidates for the
STS-90/Neurolab
mission as a Payload Specialist, but not selected.