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Dr. Kriegstein received a B.S. from Yale University (1971) and an M.D. and Ph.D. from New York University (1977). He completed his neurology residency at Brigham and Women’s, Children’s, and Beth Israel Hospitals in Boston and is a board-certified …
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Sigolène Meilhac is a research director at Inserm and has led the “Heart Morphogenesis” team at the Pasteur Institute and the Imagine Institute (Paris) since 2015. She studies how the heart develops in the embryo and how this process goes awry in …
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Céline Borde is a postdoctoral researcher in microbiology at the Interdisciplinary Research Center in Biology (CIRB), where she studies how bacteria adapt to their environment. During her Ph.D. studies in Lyon under the supervision of Agnès Rodrigue, she …
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The son of a painter and an American musician, Jacques Monod (1910–1976) earned his bachelor’s degree in 1931 and, after teaching at the university, earned his doctorate in natural sciences in 1941. In the meantime, he accompanied Charcot on an expedition …
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Carlos Spoerhase is a literary theorist and professor of German literature at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). He studied German literature, as well as philosophy and political theory. After completing his doctoral studies at Humboldt …
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Giada Di Giuseppe studied classical literature and philology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” Her Master’s thesis, which focused on the correspondence between Libanius and Basil of Caesarea, was awarded the Pierre-Louis Malosse Prize. In 2023, she …
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Grégoire Brière is a doctoral candidate in international law in a joint program between Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). He is writing a dissertation titled “The Agreement of the Parties in Proceedings …
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Troels Skrydstrup is currently a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University. He is presently a Villum Investigator at Aarhus University, and theme leader of the Novo Nordisk Foundation CO 2 Research Center. He is the former center leader …
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Yousuke Kaifu (born in 1969) is a Professor at The University Museum at The University of Tokyo, Japan. His work focuses on reconstructing the history of humanity (especially in Asia) through the study of the fossil record. He focuses on the emergence and …
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Karla Negrete defended her doctoral dissertation in mechanical engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia in August 2025. Her dissertation focused on the development of electrochemical fluorescence microscopy, an optical technique used to …
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Kurt Kremer is currently Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP) in Mainz, Germany. Prior to that, he headed the Polymer Theory Department at MPIP for nearly 29 years, until June 2024. He earned his Ph.D. in 1983 under …
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After earning my PharmD and completing my residency training in medical biology at Université Paris Cité, I worked as a clinical microbiologist at Henri Mondor University Hospital from 2021 to 2025. During this period, I conducted my PhD research in …
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Elected as a professor at the Collège de France in 2026, Diane Bodart holds the chair in the History of the Arts in Early Modern Europe. Born in Rome, Italy, in 1970, she studied art history at La Sapienza University (1994). Based on her thesis, she …
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Laure Saint-Raymond, a mathematician, focuses on problems in fluid mechanics. After completing her dissertation under the supervision of François Golse on the kinetic theory of gases and plasmas, she was hired in 2000 as a research fellow at the CNRS. …
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Olivier Hermine, MD, PhD, is a professor of hematology at Université Paris Cité and head of the clinical hematology department at Necker Enfants-Malades Hospital, where he founded and coordinates the National Reference Center for Mastocytosis (CEREMAST). …
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Tâm Mignot is a research director at the CNRS. Since 2006, he has led a team at the Laboratory of Bacterial Chemistry, which he also directed from 2018 to 2026. His work aims to understand how molecular mechanisms—studied at the single-cell level—enable …
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After studying at the National School of Statistics and Economic Administration (ENSAE) and earning a Ph.D. in biostatistics, Simon Cauchemez joined the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London in 2005. In 2013, he joined …
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Olivier Borraz is a research director at the CNRS at the Center for the Sociology of Organizations (CNRS-Sciences Po). His career began with a comparative study of local government, before shifting toward the sociology of risk. He has focused in …
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Marc Fleurbaey is a research director at the CNRS and a full professor at the Paris School of Economics. He was an associate professor at ENS-Ulm (2020–2026), a professor at Princeton University (2011–2020), and held a research chair at the College of …
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Ioana Manolescu is a research director at Inria and leads the CEDAR team, which specializes in large-scale complex data analysis. She is also president of BDA, the French national scientific association dedicated to data management. She is or has been a …
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Barbara Cassin, who holds a doctorate in literature, is a recipient of the CNRS Gold Medal, a member of the Académie française, and a philologist and philosopher. A student of Michel Deguy, she participated in the 1969 Le Thor seminar with Martin …
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A leading figure in contemporary cinema, Claire Denis spent her childhood in Africa before studying film in France. After starting out as an assistant to Jacques Rivette, Wim Wenders, and Jim Jarmusch, she directed Chocolat (1988), which was selected for …
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Michael (“Mick”) Sherburn is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Australian National University. Born and educated in England, he earned his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Nottingham, where he conducted doctoral research in free-radical …
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After studying at the Universities of Neuchâtel (bachelor’s degree in law), Geneva (Ph.D. in Law), and Yale (LL.M.), and after practicing law, Vincent Martenet was appointed in 2005 as a full professor at the University of Lausanne and as a member of the …
