| 2013 - today | Senior researcher at INRIA Lille: head of Links project of INRIA and LIFL, and member of the BioComputing project of the LIFL. |
| 2011 - 2012 | Senior researcher at INRIA Lille: head of Mostrare project of INRIA and LIFL, and member of the BioComputing project of the LIFL. |
| 2004 - 2011 | Senior researcher at INRIA Lille: member of the Mostrare project of INRIA and LIFL, and member of the BioComputing project of the LIFL. |
| 2004 | Temporary researcher at INRIA Lille: member of the Mostrare project. |
| 2003 | Guest professor at the University of Lille 3 and then at the LIFL at the University of Lille 1 in France. |
| Dec 2002 | Habilitation in computer science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences at the Saarland University Saarbrücken. |
| 99 - 03 | Temporary researcher in the Chorus project on Semantic Processing with Constraints and Preferences, leaded by Prof. Manfred Pinkal and Prof. Gert Smolka. Member of the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) SFB 378 and of the Programming Systems Lab of the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. |
| 96 - 98 | Temporary researcher in the NEP project on Concurrent Programming Models leaded by Prof. Gert Smolka. Member of the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) SFB 378 and of the Programming System Lab of the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. |
| 94 - 95 | Free collaborator of the Programming Systems Lab at the DFKI. Submission of a doctoral dissertation in December 94 and defense in August 95. |
| 91 - 94 | Doctoral student as member of the Graduiertenkolleg Informatik in Saarbrücken with a dissertation fellowship from the German Research Community (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). Supervised by Prof. Gert Smolka and associated with the Programming Systems Lab at the German Reseach Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI. |
| 86 - 91 | Student of mathematics at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. Specialisation and diploma thesis in functional analysis. |