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Franck Courchamp is Director of Research 1 st at the CNRS National Institute for Ecology and the Environment. At Paris-Saclay University, he heads a research team focusing on biodiversity dynamics and the impact of human activities on ecosystems and …
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After studying at the École normale supérieure in Paris, Thierry Coquand obtained his PhD in theoretical computer science in 1985, introducing construction theory, a formalism used in several proof assistant systems. Since 1996, he has been Professor of …
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François-Marie Bréon, born in 1965, is a former student of the École normale supérieure. He defended his thesis in 1989 at the Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University on the use of space observations to measure temperature and humidity profiles in the …
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Wajdi Mouawad grew up in Lebanon, became a teenager in Paris and a young adult in Quebec. A 1991 graduate of Canada's National School of Dramatic Arts, he has adapted and directed contemporary and classical plays, as well as his own texts. Artistic …
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Nathalie Bajos, sociologist and demographer, is Director of Research at Inserm and Director of Studies at EHESS. She works at the Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux - sciences sociales, politique, santé (Inserm-CNRS-EHESS). …
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Thierry Pozzo is Professor Emeritus at the University of Burgundy and Honorary Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His research, conducted within INSERM Unit 1093 Cognition-Action and Brain Plasticity, takes into account recent advances in …
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Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier, known as Georges Cuvier, was born on August 23 1769 in Montbéliard, into a Protestant petty bourgeois family. In 1795, Cuvier moved to Paris to work at the Natural History Museum. In 1802, he was appointed Professor …
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Dr. Sonja Dobkowitz is a researcher at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) in Berlin. She explores how social and economic factors, such as income inequality, demand, or innovation, influence and shape effective climate policies. A …
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Michael Jung received his BA in 1969 from Rice University and his PhD in 1973 from Columbia University, where he worked with Gilbert Stork as an NSF Fellow. After a one-year NATO postdoctoral fellowship with Albert Eschenmoser at the ETH in Zurich, he …
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Paul Paradis (date of birth unknown) is a descendant of the Jewish Meshulam family, known in Venice by the nickname " Del Banco ". He converted to Catholicism in 1528, adopting the name of his godfather Lodovico Canossa, ambassador to the King of France …
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Niek Veldhuis studied Semitic Languages under H.L.J. Vanstiphout in Groningen (The Netherlands), where he received his doctorate with the dissertation Elementary Education at Nippur: The Lists of Trees and Wooden Objects (1997). In 1998-1999 he spent two …
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Born in 1851 in La Porcherie, Haute-Vienne, Arsène d'Arsonval came from a family of doctors. First a high school student in Limoges, then at the Collège Sainte-Barbe, it was as a medical student that he attended Claude Bernard's lecture, where he made a …
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The son of a winegrower, Claude Bernard was born in Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais (Rhône) in 1813. Starting out as a pharmacy assistant in Lyon and author of an unsuccessful play, he moved to Paris in 1832, where he attended lectures at the École de Médecine …
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Professor of French Literature, University of Chicago. (photo credit : Erielle Bakkum) …
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Karl-Oskar Lindgren is a Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Government at Uppsala University. His research interests include political participation and representation, democratic theory, EU politics, and education policies. He is the …
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Gianfranco Agosti is a specialist in Greek culture of the Imperial period and Late Antiquity. He is Professor of Classical Philology and Late Antiquity and Director of the Doctoral School in Ancient Sciences and Archaeology at the University of Pisa. He …
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Hiroshi Kageyama is a chemist and physicist specializing in solid state science. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Chemistry at Kyoto University's Graduate School of Science in 1998 under the supervision of Prof. Koji Kosuge. In the same year, he …
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Tony Hunter received his BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge, and did postdoctoral studies there and at the Salk Institute. Since 1975, he has been on the faculty of the Salk Institute, where he is the Renato Dulbecco Chair. In 1979, through his …
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Patrick Mignon was born in 1950. A sociologist, he worked for ten years as a freelance researcher on youth culture and supporterism in soccer, and more broadly on the question of the sporting spectacle. In 1996, he joined the research department of INSEP …
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Mariachiara Gasparini is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Art and Architectural History at the University of Oregon. She studied Oriental Languages and Civilization at the University of Oriental Studies in Naples, earned an M.A. in East Asian Art History …
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Paul Roger Bassong is currently a research engineer at the General Linguistics Chair at the Collège de France in Paris and a lecturer at the University of Yaoundé 1, Yaoundé. Under the supervision of Prof. Luigi Rizzi of the General Linguistics chair, …
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Julien Sorez has a degree in history and is a lecturer at the UFR Staps of the University of Paris Nanterre. After completing a doctorate in history on soccer in Paris and its suburbs at Sciences Po, he is currently conducting research on the social …
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Claire Thomas-Junius is a specialist in exercise physiology. Her research focuses on the responses and adaptations of energy metabolism, in the context of optimizing sports performance and health. Passionate about sport and physiology, she devotes her …
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Born in 1964, Paul Dietschy is a graduate of the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud and holds a doctorate in history. He is currently Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Franche-Comté, member of the Centre Lucien Febvre …
