She completed her PhD at the Université Paris - Diderot in 1991and was a post-doctoral fellow at CHIPR/SUNY in Stony Brook (USA) in 1992. From 1993 to 2012, she was associate professor at the Paris-Diderot University (Paris, France). Her research focuses on structure-property relationships in minerals and glasses, using (micro) spectroscopic techniques (optical absorption spectroscopy at high pressure and temperature, x-ray absorption spectroscopy), with interest on geochemical, industrial and archeological applications. She has been Associate Editor of the American Mineralogist. She is a member of Beam Time Allocation Panels at the synchrotron light sources of ESRF (France) and CLS (Canada).