Research director at the Institute of Genetics, Cellular & Molecular Biology (IGBMC) in Strasbourg-Illkirch. Trained as chemist he did his PhD in Biochemistry at the RUB Bochum, Germany, and joined as post-doc the team of Pierre Chambon (Strasbourg, France), where he became head of the departments 'Cell Biology and Signal Transduction' and 'Cancer Biology' in the newly founded IGBMC. He is Research Director (Class 'Exceptional') of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research.