Science department, IUT Lyon1, and is now deputyhead of the SAARA research team. He also spent three years in Chile, at the CMM in Santiago and DIM in Concepción, on developing new numerical methods for simulating soft tissues for medical applications. His research includes computational geometry, animation for computer graphics, topological and physicallybased modeling of 3D deformable objects, biomechanical simulation of soft tissues, parallel algorithms, augmented reality, haptic devices. He has strong expertise