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Thomas Lecuit is a biologist whose research focuses on morphogenesis, i.e. the origin of forms in living organisms, such as a neuron or an embryo. During embryogenesis, millions of cells divide, move, change shape and collectively give rise to a complex …
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Born in Paris, August 8 1920. Died September 16 2011. Education and professional career 1940-1945 : Student at the École normale supérieure 1945 : Agrégé de l'Université (for 1944) 1946-1948 : Research associate at the C.N.R.S. and chargé de mission at …
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Born on January 27, 1928 in Saint-Hernin (Finistère). Died July on 3, 2014. Education and professional career 1948-1952: Student at the École normale supérieure 1952: Agrégation des Lettres 1952-1955: École française d'Athènes 1955-1958: French Institute …
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Historian and Byzantinist Paul Lemerle (1903-1989) taught at the École française d'Athènes (1931-1941), the Faculté des lettres de Dijon (1942-1947), the École pratique des hautes études (1947-1968) and the Sorbonne (1958-1967). In 1967, he was elected to …
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Born 30 September 1939, Rosheim, Bas-Rhin. Training and professional career 1960-1966 : Researcher, CNRS 1966-1969 : Senior lecturer, University of Strasbourg 1970 : Professor without a chair, University of Strasbourg 1970-1979 : Full professor, …
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Yann LeCun is a researcher in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision and robotics, and a graduate of the École supérieure d'ingénieurs en électronique et électrotechnique (ESIEE) in Paris and the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie. He …
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Born in Algiers on July 15, 1942. Career École polytechnique, Paris (1964, class of 62) ; Joined INED (October 1965) ; Expert demographer, Institut de démographie de Paris (1966) ; Diplôme d'études supérieures en sciences économiques, University of Caen …
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Born August 25 1911, Paris. Died February 19 1986. Education 1931 : Diploma in Russian from the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes 1933 : Diploma in Chinese from the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes 1945 : Doctor of Letters …
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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 …
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Pierre-Louis Lions was born on August 11 1956 in Grasse, France. A student at the École normale supérieure from 1975 to 1979, he defended his thesis in 1978 and his state thesis in 1979. A researcher at the CNRS from 1979 to 1981, he became a professor at …
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Director of INSERM Unit U691, created in 2004 within the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en biologie (CIRB) at Collège de France, Catherine Llorens-Cortes is a neuroendocrinologist and neuropharmacologist. Since the beginning of her scientific …
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With a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Bristol in the UK, I have been working for several years on the determinants and effects of international migration in countries of origin, in the Maghreb and in West Africa. I am particularly interested …
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Born 11 January 1941 in Deuthen (East Prussia). Married to Annette Lepenies, three children. Doctor of Letters (sociology) summa cum laude from the University of Münster (1967). Professional career Since 1971 : Professor of Sociology at Berlin's Freie …
