Current position and responsabilities

• Professor in Library and information science
• Co-director of the academic journal Etudes de Communication
• Director of the VeCIS Master degree (information management & Business intelligence)
• Member of the Scientific board of the GERiiCO research center
  
• President of the Scientific board of ENSSIB
• Member of the Scientific board of MSH Paris Nord
• Member of the French National Committee for universities (Information and communication science)

Former position and responsabilities

• Director the GERiiCO Research center - University of Lille 3 (2010-2018)
• Member of the governing board of the university of Lille 3 (2016-2017)
• President of the Scientific Committee of the journal I2D - Information, Données, Document (formerly Documentaliste - Sciences de l'information) (2010-2017)
• Member of the Scientific board of the GERiiCO Research center (2007-2010)
• Scientific editor of the collection "Systèmes d’information et Organisations documentaires", Hermès Lavoisier edition
• Membee of the Scientific board of the TGE Adonis

Former professional experience

Academic positions:

• Oct. 2000 – Aug. 2004: Co-director of the Master degree DEFI (« Documents électroniques et flux d’informations »), University of Paris 10.
• Oct. 1998 – Aug. 2004: Dean of the department of Information and Communication Studies, University of Paris 10.
• Oct. 1992 – Aug. 2004: Director of the Library and Information Science programs for the bachelor and the master degrees, University of Paris 10.
• Oct. 1990 – Aug. 2004: Assistant professor, Department of Information and Communication Studies, University of Paris 10 Nanterre.
• 1985 – 1988: PhD student with a funding from the Ministry of Research, University of Paris 7.

Other positions:

• Sept 2007 – July 2009: Scientifique Advisor, Ministry for Higher Education and Research, Direction of scientific and technical information, in charge of the "Strategic watch" program.
• Sept. 2000 – Aug. 2007: Project Officer, Ministry for Research and Technology, Direction of Technology (ICT Department, in charge of the "Information watch for SMEs" and Technolangue programs.
• Sept. 1997 – Sept. 2000: Scientific Advisor, Ministry  for Research and Technology, Direction of Technology (ICT Department, in charge of the "Information watch for SMEs".
• Sept. 1988 – Aug. 1997: Project Officer, Ministry for Research and Technology, Direction of Scientific Information, in charge of the Language Technology program. French Representative near the European Commisison for the machine translation program Eurotra and the following programs dedicated to Language Technology : Linguistic Research and Engineering (LRE), Multilingual Action Plan (MLAP)

Education

• "Habilitation à diriger des recherches" in Library and Information Science, « Evaluation of textual information processing systems: towards a paradigm shift »,  under the supervision of Jacques Perriault, University of Paris 10-Nanterre, 2001.
• PhD in Computational linguistics: "Representation of the tense and aspect system in French language for Natural Language Processing", under the supervision of F. Charpin et A. Culioli, University of Paris 7, 1988.
• Research Degree (DEA) in semiology, University of Paris 7, 1985.
• Master of Computational Linguistics, University of Paris 7, 1986.
• Master of  Literature, University of Paris 4-Sorbonne, 1984.