He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris from 1993 to 1998, and at Princeton University in the U.S. from 1995 to 1996, before working at the French Cultural Service in New York as a "cultural attaché" for books and academic exchanges from 1998 to 1999. Dr. During received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris 10 in 2007 for his research on the philosophical reception of the theory of relativity ("From Relativity to Spacetime: Bergson between Einstein and Poincaré," 2007) and has since been further exploring the notion of spacetime at the juncture of metaphysics, science, and aesthetics, where the durations of mind and matter seem to intersect.