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Born on March 4 1962 in Saint-Leu-la-forêt (Val-d'Oise, France). Married, five children. Education and professional career 1981 : Entry to ENS Sèvres 1983 : Agrégation 1986 : Thesis (supervisor A. Beauville) ; joined CNRS 1989 : Habilitation to direct …

Marie-Paule Cani is Professor of Computer Science at Grenoble-INP/Ensimag. She is scientific leader of the IMAGINE team, a joint venture between Inria and the Jean Kuntzmann Laboratory (CNRS, Grenoble-Alpes University). An alumnus of the École normale …

Claire Mathieu, a former student at the ENS and holder of a thesis in computer science from the Université Paris-Sud, is currently Director of Research at the CNRS. She has worked as a CNRS researcher at the ENS-Lyon and as a professor at various …

Manuela Carneiro da Cunha studied mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris, before turning to anthropology in Claude Lévi-Strauss's seminar. Returning to Brazil, she was successively Professor of Anthropology at the University of Campinas and the …

Yanick Lahens was born in Haiti. After university studies in France, she returned to her homeland. There, she taught literature at university, hosted a cultural program on Radio Haïti Inter, and published articles on Haitian literature and the links …

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 …

Xiao-Jing Wang is Distinguished Global Professor of Neural Science, director of the Swartz Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, adjunct professor of Physics and Mathematics at New York University. In 2012-2017, he served as the founding Provost and Vice …

Barbara Romanowicz studied mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure before specializing first in astronomy, and finally defending a doctoral thesis in geophysics at the Université Paris-VII in 1979. A researcher at the CNRS in the 1980s, she led the …

Born March 5, 1965 in London, England. Edith Heard trained as a geneticist. She studied natural sciences at Cambridge University in the UK, and completed her doctorate at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London. Edith Heard joined the Institut Pasteur …

Xavier Leroy studied mathematics and computer science at the École normale supérieure and Université Paris-Diderot. After a PhD in fundamental computer science in 1992 and a post-doctorate at Stanford University, he became a research fellow at Inria in …