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Marcel Mauss
Sociology
Marcel Mauss
Sociology
1931 - 1942
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Between 1931 and 1940, Marcel Mauss held the first sociology chair at the Collège de France. A nephew of Durkheim, Mauss's lectures were as much sociology as anthropology, religion and ethnology. Marcel Mauss's election to the Collège de France, at the …
Paul Langevin
General and experimental physics
Paul Langevin
General and experimental physics
1909 - 1946
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General and experimental physics. …
Henri Bergson
Modern philosophy
Henri Bergson
Modern philosophy
1904 - 1921
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The Collège de France was a perfect match for Henri Bergson's personality and aspirations, where he taught two lectures a week on Friday and Saturday afternoons. The first lecture is devoted to a philosophical problem, while the second comments on the …
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French language and literature in the Middle Ages. …
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Troels Skrydstrup is currently a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University. He is presently a Villum Investigator at Aarhus University, and theme leader of the Novo Nordisk Foundation CO 2 Research Center. He is the former center leader …
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Yousuke Kaifu (born in 1969) is a Professor at The University Museum at The University of Tokyo, Japan. His work focuses on reconstructing the history of humanity (especially in Asia) through the study of the fossil record. He focuses on the emergence and …
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Karla Negrete defended her doctoral dissertation in mechanical engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia in August 2025. Her dissertation focused on the development of electrochemical fluorescence microscopy, an optical technique used to …
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Kurt Kremer is currently Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP) in Mainz, Germany. Prior to that, he headed the Polymer Theory Department at MPIP for nearly 29 years, until June 2024. He earned his Ph.D. in 1983 under …
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After earning my PharmD and completing my residency training in medical biology at Université Paris Cité, I worked as a clinical microbiologist at Henri Mondor University Hospital from 2021 to 2025. During this period, I conducted my PhD research in …
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Elected as a professor at the Collège de France in 2026, Diane Bodart holds the chair in the History of the Arts in Early Modern Europe. Born in Rome, Italy, in 1970, she studied art history at La Sapienza University (1994). Based on her thesis, she …
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Laure Saint-Raymond, a mathematician, focuses on problems in fluid mechanics. After completing her dissertation under the supervision of François Golse on the kinetic theory of gases and plasmas, she was hired in 2000 as a research fellow at the CNRS. …
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Olivier Hermine, MD, PhD, is a professor of hematology at Université Paris Cité and head of the clinical hematology department at Necker Enfants-Malades Hospital, where he founded and coordinates the National Reference Center for Mastocytosis (CEREMAST). …
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Tâm Mignot is a research director at the CNRS. Since 2006, he has led a team at the Laboratory of Bacterial Chemistry, which he also directed from 2018 to 2026. His work aims to understand how molecular mechanisms—studied at the single-cell level—enable …
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After studying at the National School of Statistics and Economic Administration (ENSAE) and earning a Ph.D. in biostatistics, Simon Cauchemez joined the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London in 2005. In 2013, he joined …
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Olivier Borraz is a research director at the CNRS at the Center for the Sociology of Organizations (CNRS-Sciences Po). His career began with a comparative study of local government, before shifting toward the sociology of risk. He has focused in …
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Marc Fleurbaey is a research director at the CNRS and a full professor at the Paris School of Economics. He was an associate professor at ENS-Ulm (2020–2026), a professor at Princeton University (2011–2020), and held a research chair at the College of …
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Ioana Manolescu is a research director at Inria and leads the CEDAR team, which specializes in large-scale complex data analysis. She is also president of BDA, the French national scientific association dedicated to data management. She is or has been a …