After biology studies in Strasbourg's Louis Pasteur University, Nicolas has worked in Basel's Friedrich Miescher Institute (functional analysis of Arabidopsis proteins involved in DNA repair) and in Biogemma, within the Evry Genopole (construction of normalised cDNA libraries, identification of interest genes through the use of microarrays).

He has joined the CNRGV in november 2007 in order to construct BAC libraries and is involved in several technical staff's duties.