Academic qualifications

Higher education

2013 - "Habilitation à diriger des recherches" (Grèce, Rome, océan Indien: la Méditerranée antique et les mondes de la mer Erythrée) received from the University of Lyon.

Members of the jury panel: Pascal Arnaud; Jehan Desanges; Didier Marcotte; Federico de Romanis; Jean-François Salles; François Villeneuve.

The habilitation file includes a new dissertation entitled: Margarita. Une histoire culturelle, économique et sociale de la perle de l'océan Indien dans l'Antiquité gréco-romaine

1998 - Ph.D. under the supervision of Jehan Desanges received from the Sorbonne University (Paris): La confusion de l'Inde et de l'Éthiopie (6^e siècle av. J.-C. – 6^e siècle ap. J.-C.)

Members of the jury panel: Jehan Desanges; Jean-Louis Ferrary; André Laronde; Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat; Hubert Zehnacker

1982 -1988 - Graduate studies at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and then at the University of Paris - Sorbonne

Scholarship - fellowship

April – June 2016 – fellow of the Excellence Cluster “Topoi" (Frei Universität & Humboldt- Universität – Berlin)

April-May 2013 - Visiting scholar in the Department of Classics, Stanford University, at the invitation of Grant Parker