He is a member of the Centre de recherche ‘Individu-Épreuves-Société’ (CeRIES) and an associate member of the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux Sociaux (Iris). His research focuses on disability, family and teenagers. He completed his PhD on the ethnography of parents facing mental disabilities, their diagnostic theories and practical arrangements, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 2008. He is now working on two projects. The first studies the moral and emotional issues involved in institutional support for teenagers with social and psychological problems. The second examines the legal recognition of workers with disabilities.