As a Research Director at Villefranche Oceanographic Laboratory (LOV), France, I have over 30 years of experience investigating marine biogeochemistry through positions and projects in France (CNRS), abroad in the US (University of Rhode Island and Texas A&M, CALTECH) and Abu Dhabi (New York University).

My academic background started in geology, but through a succession of chance, opportunities, and meetings with a few, key people, I landed in the field of marine biogeochemistry. I earned my PhD at the University of Paris VI in 1991, working in a relatively new field at that time: the significance of the atmospheric deposition of nutrients in ocean biogeochemical cycles.

My passion for fundamental research in oceanography is at its greatest extent when collaborating as part of a team of scientists to address new questions during large sea expeditions, or while in the laboratory setting up new experiments and methods to describe key processes that can advance scientific models.