A Professor at the Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University, Sorbonne University, he was President of the National Museum of Natural History from February 2009 to August 2015 and visiting professor at the Collège de France in 2013-2014, on the « Development sustainability, environment, energy and society”. He has been a scientific advisor to the cabinet of the Minister of State for the Environment, Energy and the Sea. Since 2021, he has been a member of the National Advisory Committee on Ethics for Life Sciences and Health upon designation by the Minister of National Education