1966

Born in Strasbourg, France; Undergraduate studies in Molecular and Cellular Biology in Strasbourg, France

1996
Ph.D. thesis in Cellular and Molecular Biology in the laboratory of Prof. Danielle Dhouailly, Albert Bonniot Institute, University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble , France.

1996 – 1999
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Freiburg, Germany, Laboratory of Dr. Moisés Mallo (Department of Developmental Biology of Prof. Davor Solter).

1999 to present
Head of the Transgenic Mouse Unit at the Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany.