Fabrice Feinstein is a University Montpellier 2 professor (grade 1st class). During his PhD, obtained in 1987, he studied a prototype of Transition Radiation Detector for the D0 experiment. After two years in the industry, he was hired by CEA in 1989 and worked on the determination of polarized structure functions with the SMC collaboration at CERN. He was a CERN fellow between 1991 and 1993. From 1995 to 2003, he was involved in the development of a neutrino telescope and worked at the construction of the ANTARES telescope. In 2003, he joined the Montpellier team as a professor and got involved in high energy gamma-ray astronomy with HESS, and then CTA, working on front-end electronics and the study of interactions between supernova remnants and molecular clouds. He is the director of the LUPM since its creation in 2011.