Education
- Attended primary and secondary schools in Strasbourg, France
- 1971: Received an engineering degree from the INPG-ENSEEG (Grenoble Institute of Technology).
- 1977: Earned a Ph.D. in engineering from the École des mines de Paris
- 1977: Earned a Ph.D. in metallurgy and physics from the University of Grenoble
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