Career
He works in the National Center for Scientific Research Laboratory for Subatomic Physics and Cosmology (LPSC) and is professor at the Joseph Fourier University (UJF). He was awarded the 2006 Bogoliubov Prize in theoretical physics, mostly for his researches about quantum black holes and primordial cosmology, and the 2012 European Thibaud prize in subatomic physics. He was awarded the Joseph Fourier University medal in 2010.
He was invited both at the "Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques" (France) and at the "Institute for Advanced Study" (Princeton) as a visitor.
He is also Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from Paris-Sorbonne university, and has written a book with Jean-Luc Nancy.