Paul Langevin and Brownian motion

Jean-François Joanny is Professor of Physics at Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris. He has been Managing Director of ESPCI Paris since January 2014. He began his career at the CNRS, Collège de France in Paris, then in Lyon. He was appointed Professor of Physics at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg in 1989. He is a theoretical physicist and has worked on various aspects of soft matter physics. In 2003, Jean-François Joanny moved to UPMC in Paris to head the Institut Curie physics laboratory. Since then, he has been working on cell biophysics, tissue mechanics and growth, and cancer physics. Jean-François Joanny has received several distinctions, including silver and bronze medals from the CNRS and the Prix Ampère from the Académie des Sciences. He has been a junior and senior member of the IUF.