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David Papineau has held a number of academic posts at the universities of Reading, Macquarie, Birkbeck London and Cambridge. Since 1990, he has pursued his career at King's College London and, from 2015 to 2020, he taught one semester of each academic …
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René Bloch is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Berne. After training in Classics and Semitic languages at the University of Basel and the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), René Bloch turned to the literature and history of ancient …
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After graduating from the University of Salento (Italy) with a thesis on the socio-economic role of imperial estates in Roman Egypt, Serena Causo worked as a research assistant at the Papyrological Institute in Leiden, collaborating on the compilation of …
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Invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Pr Anne Fagot-Largeault. As a young man, Patrick Suppes served in the US Army during the Second World War, in Asia, in the meteorological services. His background in physics and mathematics …
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A doctoral student in public law at the University of Orléans since 2021, Camille Michel is writing a thesis entitled " The role of non-governmental organizations in the implementation of international law in maritime spaces under national jurisdiction " …
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Viresh Rawal was born in India, and at a young age immigrated with his family to the United States, settling in Connecticut. He received his BS degree from the University of Connecticut (1980) and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (1986) under …
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A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a doctoral student in law at the Université Paris Panthéon-Assas since 2021, Alban Guyomarc'h is writing a thesis on " Les activités spatiales au prisme du droit international privé " under the …
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Cyril Letrouit is a research fellow at CNRS, where he was recruited in 2022. He works at the Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay. He defended his thesis under the supervision of Emmanuel Trélat and Yves Colin de Verdière in 2021, after studying at the …
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Lisa Sauermann is a professor at the Mathematics Institute of the University of Bonn. She is a laureate of the Cours Peccot International for the year 2024-2025. Lisa Sauermann is a mathematics professor at the University of Bonn, working in extremal and …
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Sébastien Lecommandoux is Professor at Bordeaux INP and Director of the Organic Polymer Chemistry Laboratory (LCPO, UMR CNRS 5629). Since 2020, he has also been Editor-in-Chief of the leading scientific journal Biomacromolecules (ACS). He heads the …
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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) …
