 Rousso currently serves as Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) with which he has been involved since 1981.On February 22, 2017, Rousso was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents for 10 hours on arrival at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston and nearly deported.He had come to give a talk at Texas A&M University and was detained because he was entering the country on a tourist visa and was being paid a stipend for the talk.