A graduate of Aalborg University, Denmark (M.Sc., PhD - civilingeniør, cand. polyt), Thomas spent a number of years at INRIA. There he, among other things, spent his time developing and standardising OLSR.

In 2004 he joined faculty at Ecole Polytechnique, France’s premiere technical university. In addition to continuing his research in computer networking (see research page for details), this also has the benefit of allowing him to work with some of France’s best students.

Thomas has a particular affinity for “applicable research”, and enjoys working with industrial partners and standardisation bodies. He is, thus co-chair of the MANET AUTOCONF working group within the IETF, as well as the author and editor of several standard track and other documents within the IETF.