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Born in 1953, François Héran is an alumnus of the École normale supérieure and holds a agrégation in philosophy (1975), a thesis in anthropology from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (1979) and a doctorat d'État from the Université …

Claudine Tiercelin is a professor at the Collège de France, where she has held the Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge chair since December 9 2010. She studied at the universities of Paris-IV, Berkeley and Paris-I, where, under the supervision of …

Born near the River Thames and London, to a mother of distant Norman ancestry and a father who could not be more English. After studying at Cambridge, he became a university professor in England, then the first Briton elected to the Collège de France and …

Born in Beirut (Lebanon) in 1973, of Swiss and British nationality, Samantha Besson is Professor at the Collège de France, Paris, and holds the   International Law of Institutions Chair since 2019. She has also been Professor of Public International Law …

Born in Bâges (Pyrénées Orientales) on September 15, 1926. Son of Jean Serre and Adèle Serre (née Diet), pharmacists. Training and professional career 1932-1937: Student at École de Vauvert 1937-1945: Student at Lycée de Nîmes 1944: Bachelor of Science …

Docteur d'État en droit (Bordeaux, 1979), agrégé des Facultés de droit (1980), doctor h.c. of the universities of Louvain-la-Neuve, Aristotle of Thessalonica, Liège and Buenos Aires, Alain Supiot is Professor Emeritus of the Collège de France and …

Michel Foucault is a French philosopher, born on October 15   1926 in Poitiers. Rejecting the medical studies his surgeon father envisioned for him, he studied philosophy and psychology at the École normale supérieure on rue d'Ulm from 1946 onwards. He …

Born in Geneva in 1955, Denis Duboule holds both French and Swiss nationalities. He is Honorary Professor of Genetics at the University of Geneva, where he headed the Department of Genetics and Evolution and the Centre National de Compétence en Génétique. …

A professor at the Collège de France since 2007, Thomas Römer spent four years as vice-president of the assembly and five years as director of the Institute of Civilizations before being appointed administrator of the Collège, effective September 1 , …

Hugues de Thé has a dual medical and scientific background (see CV). He explores the relationships between gene transcription, nuclear architecture and cancer development. Following the discovery of a retinoic acid receptor and the first response element …