After university, Joppert earned his PhD in Paris, where he studied at the Sorbonne under Nicole Vandier-Nicholas, an expert in the great Song-dynasty painter Mi Fei.
黎嘉德在巴黎大學漢學研究所得到博士學位，師從專研宋代大畫家米芾的二十世紀歐洲漢學大師 Nicole Vandier-Nicolas，受其影響深遠。