I was born in October 1957 in Chamali®res in the Clermont-Ferrand area. I went to Clermont-Ferrand medical school from 1974 to 1980 and did my residency from 1980 to 1984. I became a resident in Professor's Bruhat department in 1982 where I confirmed my interest in laparoscopic surgery which I discovered as a medical student attending many laparoscopic surgical procedures with Dr Hubert Manh®s who pioneered laparoscopic surgery in Europe. My interest in Endometriosis begun during my residency. I performed a literature review on this topic, from this work Pr Bruhat and I selected all the speakers of the first world congress on endometriosis which was organized in Clermont-Ferrand in November 1986. Since then I have been involved both in the development of advanced laparoscopic surgical procedures, such as laparoscopic radical hysterectomy and excision of deep endometriotic nodules, and in basic research on the pathophysiology of endometriosis and of the peritoneal surgical environment. I am full Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology since 2003. I was head of the department of Gynecologic Surgery in the CHU of Clermont-Ferrand between September 2012 and July 2018. Since February 2020, I am member of the management team of the Gynecologic Surgery Department. To improve our decisions, the surgeons of the department decided that the management would be collective involving all the surgeon and not "a head of department". Since 2012, I am together with Pr Bartoli director of a CNRS Research Unit on Computer Vision and Endoscopy (ENCOV part of The Pascal Institute of Clermont Ferrand Auvergne University). Together with Catherine we have two children Hugo and Anouk who will be 30 and 23 years old.