Researcher at the Mediterrannean Intstitut of Oceanography. He his PhD on Amazon river organic matter fluxes and caracterisation and the Paris VI university. Since he joined the RCMO laboratory in Toulon, belonging PROTEE laboratory, is working on organic matter spectroscopy and interaction with metal in various environments (soils, lakes, seawater, interstitial water, sediment and solids) using PARAFAC decomposition. With R. Redon he is developping the PROGMEEF interface and fluorescence quenching modelling. The last topics focuse on solid surface fluorescence and laser induiced time resolved fluorescence spectroscopy.