Reynaud博士从大学Bordeaux II Victor Segalen和来自大学巴黎Xi-Orsay的博士获得了他的BSC和MSC。Prior to joining UCD, Dr. Reynaud was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, where his research focused on development of new imaging methods (e.g. Light Sheet Microscopy) and optical micromanipulations in Cell Biology (e.g. laser nanosurgery), in the laboratory of Prof. Ernst H.K Stelzer and Dr Rainer Pepperkok. He was also the co-founder of the Light Sheet Microscopy community alongside Dr Pavel Tomancak. He also developed and coordinated for 2.5 years a unique imaging platform TAOMI during the circumnavigation of the Earth as part of the Tara Oceans (2009-2012).