Born 1944, Swiss citizen.
Education and professional career
- 1959-1963 : Secondary studies at the Lycée de Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
- 1963-1967 : University studies at the Faculty of Letters, Neuchâtel
- 1967 : Bachelor of Classics, University of Neuchâtel
- 1967-1970 : Studies at the Sorbonne and EPHE IVe section, Paris
- 1969 : Member of the Swiss Archaeological Mission to Greece, then the Swiss Archaeological School, and member of its Foundation Board (1983)
- 1970 : Doctorat de3e cycle de l'ancienne université de Paris-Sorbonne
- 1970-1973 : Foreign member of the École française d'Athènes
- 1973-1975 : Assistant librarian at the University of Neuchâtel
- 1975-1976 : Visiting Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton
- 1975-1978 : Researcher at the Swiss National Science Foundation for the testimonia project on the city of Eretria (Greece)
- 1976 : Humboldt Foundation scholarship holder at the Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des DAI, Munich
- 1978 : Contributor to the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, Oxford
- 1978-1984 : Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Neuchâtel
- 1984 : Doctorat d'État, University of Paris-IV Sorbonne
- 1980-1981, 1988-1989 : Substitute Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Geneva
- 1984 : Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the Faculty of Arts, University of Neuchâtel
- 1987 : President of the Groupe romand des études grecques et latines
- 1987 : Epitimos Hetairos of the Archaeological Society of Athens
- 1990 : Korrespondent-Mitglied des Deutschen Arch. Instituts, Berlin
- 1991-1993 : Dean of the Faculty of Letters, University of Neuchâtel
- 1992 : Expert for Greek epigraphy and numismatics at the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences
- 1993-1994 : Substitute professor for Greek epigraphy at the University of Basel
- 1994-1998 : President of the Swiss Association for the Study of Antiquity
- 1996-1999 : Member of the jury for the entrance examination to the École française d'Athènes
- 1997 : Member of the CNE evaluation commission
- 2000 : Foreign correspondent of the Institut de France, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
- 2003 : Associate foreign member of the Institut de France, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
- 2003-2014 : Professor at the Collège de France, History and epigraphy of Greek cities
- 2004 : Epitimos Symboulos of the Archaeological Society of Athens
- 2007 : Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
- 2008 : Recipient of the Institut Neuchâtelois prize (Switzerland)
- 2008 : Honorary Professor at the University of Neuchâtel
