Tim graduated from the National Veterinary School of Toulouse in 2009. After having completed a Master of Science on Epidemiology and Animal Health in Tropical Regions, he undertook a PhD (2009-2012) at the University of Paris XI on the use of capture-recapture methods for evaluating quantitatively animal health surveillance systems (supervision: Barbara Dufour, Benoît Durand and Vladimir Grosbois). He then moved to the Royal Veterinary College (London, United Kingdom, 2012-2016) to study the transmission of infectious diseases, including African swine fever, highly pathogenic avian influenza, bovine tuberculosis and foot-and-mouth disease (supervision: Dirk Pfeiffer). In 2016, he joined the Institute of Research for Development (Montpellier, France) to unravel the spatial spread of the chikungunya virus during the unprecented epidemic in the Martinique Island (supervision: Benjamin Roche). Since 01 January 2018, Tim holds a lectureship position on veterinary public health at the National Veterinary School of Toulouse.