1991 to present: Technical Translator: English/French and German/French, specializing in patents, medicine, biology, chemistry, water treatment, for: Strauman, Ciba-Geigy, Sandoz (Novartis), Sanofi, Lipha, Roche, Gerot-Pharmazeutika, Merck-Germany, Kodak-Diagnostics, Cellulose du Pin, AEG, Commission des Communautés Européennes, Smith & Nephew, Dyonics, POLAR, Cargill, Elf-Aquitaine, Veolia, L'Oréal, Pasteur, Seiko Epson Corporation, ART-International, Cabinet Regimbeau, Cabinet Harle & Phelip, Beau de Loménie, Nony & Autres, ACCESS-International, Transperfect, Wipo, Monsanto. Current status: self-employed.
1988: Marketing Director – Lille Blood Center, Hematology Reagent Division
1984-1987: Physical Science Professor at the Rochefort Military Academy, then Assistant Professor (physical sciences and biochemistry) in the academy of POITIERS.
1981-1986: Department of Neurochemistry, MAX-PLANCK INSTITUTE, GÖTTINGEN (Germany). Research on the cholinergic synapse: adaptation of genetic engineering techniques to molecular neurobiology (cDNA cloning).
FORMAL EDUCATION
Master’s Degree in Biochemistry BORDEAUX 1981
PhD in Neurobiology BORDEAUX 1986
COURSES
1988: Good Clinical Practices course, Central Nervous System department, SANDOZ Laboratories in BASEL.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Foreign languages: ENGLISH – fluent (read, write and speak)