Professor and Director of Laboratory of Biology and Ecology of fishes of Black african fundamental Institute( Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire :IFAN ) of University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar (UCAD).

Professor at the Department of animal biology since 1992, he became department head until 2004. From January 2005 to December 2010, he’s the Director of IFAN-UCAD.

He is the author of seventy publications in Fish Biology and sustainable development.