He holds an Engineering degree, a double PhD diploma and an HDR (Habilitation to supervise research). He was awarded by La Caixa savings bank foundation and has been visiting postdoctoral fellow at Carleton University. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a researcher of the R3S (Network, Systems, Services, Security) team of the CNRS SAMOVAR research laboratory. He also is involved in several EU funded research projects in the cyber defense area. His research includes management of security policies, analysis of vulnerabilities and enforcement of countermeasures. He has numerous publications in these areas, and served on several related conference program committees as member or as Chair.