In a very short space of time he developed in his laboratories in Dijon an internationally-leading research group in this field, which has achieved numerous important scientific breakthroughs and is internationally-acknowledged as one of the foremost groups working in the field. His personal input has been central to the expansion of the group into new and significant research fields. He is regularly contacted by world-leading theoreticians in the field of nonlinear guided waves for collaborations. He is internationally considered amongst the world’s expert in fields such as optical solitons and self-similar pulses, modulation instabilities, polarization attractors, rogue waves, high-repetition-rate sources, incoherent and multimode nonlinear optics and dual-comb spectroscopy. He has secured substantial direct funding resources to support his activities (3 M€ in the last ten years). His research has been recognized by two prestigious awards: membership of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) and the silver medal from the CNRS. He was elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 2012. He is a frequently requested project expert and PhD examiner. A central feature of his research is that he carries out both fundamental and applied studies in the fields of laser spectroscopy in gases and ultrafast optics in nonlinear waveguides.