He joined the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) as an assistant professor in 2005 and then the Université de Lorraine as a full professor in 2010.
In 2011, he was awarded the Annual Prize of the Fondation des Sciences Mathématiques de Paris.
In 2013, he was awarded the France Scopus Researcher Award in the field of Mathematics by Elsevier.
He was appointed professor of stochastic modelling at the University of Luxembourg in March 2014, where he is currently building a research group.
In 2015, together with Giovanni Peccati he was awarded the FNR Award for Outstanding Scientific Publication (for the book “Normal Approximations with Malliavin Calculus: from Stein’s method to universality”, published by Cambridge University Press in 2012).