1972 Admitted to the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan - Section: Applied Physics
1975 Agrégation de Sciences Physiques.
1976 Versailles Conservatory of Music - Classical guitar (medal of vermeil) ; Chamber Music: 1st Prize.
1981 Doctorate (PhD) in Acoustics - University Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg.
1987 Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (Habilitation to supervise research) - University Louis Pasteur -
Strasbourg.
1978-1985 PhD student (78-81) and post-doc (82-85) at the Ultrasound and Complex Fluids Laboratory -
University Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg.
1985-2000 Faculty Member at ENST Paris (Télécom ParisTech). Head of the research group
“Audio, Acoustics and Waves” in the “Signal and Image Processing” Departement.
1994-2006 Part-time Associate Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Department of Mechanics.
2000-2014 Professor ENSTA ParisTech. Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department (UME).
Deputy Dean, in charge of the Doctoral Program (2010-2014).
2014-2017 Visiting Researcher, Institut für Wiener Klangstil, University of Music and Performing Arts
(MDW), Vienna (Austria). Lise-Meitner Fellowship.