My initial background is functional neurosurgery and spine surgery. I was recruited in 2000 at Poitiers University Hospital, where I serve as professor of neurosurgery since 2014 and as head of the department of Spine Surgery & Neuromodulation since 2018.I am also conducting fundamental research at Pprime CNRS UPR 3346, Faculty of Sciences, and created PRISMATICS Lab (Predicitive Research In Spine/Neuromodulation Management And Thoracic Innovation/Cardiac Surgery) in 2017 in Poitiers. I took the position of research program director, with 21 national and international on-going prospective trials running in 2020.My main research interests are neuromodulation, chronic pain, predictive research and spine biomechanics.We developed intensive scientific collaborations with major researchers worldwide. These partnerships gave us the opportunity to publish more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals indexed in PubMed, abstracts, and book chapters and to be the editor of a 3D Atlas of Anatomy of the peripheral nerves.