Emeritus professor at the University of Rouen, appointed to the IUF in 1992 and 2006, 250 articles, 130 guest lectures or seminars, co-inventor of the tomographic atomic probe (1993), CNRS silver medal in 2000, director of the Materials Physics Group 2003-2011, Knight of the Order of Merit in 2010, President of the French Microscopy Society 2014, fellow award of the International Field Emission Society society 2015.