He received a PhD in sociology from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. His dissertation was dedicated to the longitudinal analysis of French performing artists careers. His current research interests span the social construction of markets, valuation processes and risk and foresight analysis. He has published articles about the analysis of insecure labor markets and the social organization of production in the movie industries, the effects of the Internet on evaluation (online consumer reviews in the hospitality industry), the risk assessment of unprecedented risks (agro-terrorism) and of pesticides health effects and currently works on food security foresight modeling and scenario analysis.