Curriculum Vitae
1975-80 École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Biochemistry Dept
1977 Summer Scholar at the Polymer Dept, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (H. Eisenberg, supervisor)
Study of two halophilic dehydrogenases
1978 DEA (Master 2) at Université Paris 7 "Denis Diderot" (A. Képès, supervisor)
Set-up of an automated synchronizer of E. coli cell divisions
1981 Thèse de Doctorat (PhD thesis) at Université Paris 7 "Denis Diderot" (A. Képès, supervisor)
Contribution to the study of the cell cycle in enterobacteria
1981 Research Assistant at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Life Sciences
1983-84 Visiting Researcher at World Centre of Computer Science, Paris
Set-up of LISP software for bench data analysis
1985 Thèse d'État (Habilitation) at Université Paris 7 "Denis Diderot" (R. D'Ari, supervisor)
Physiological study of the cell cycle in enterobacteria
1985 Research Associate at CNRS
1986-88 Post-doctoral Fellow (R. Schekman, supervisor), University of California at Berkeley. EMBO fellowship
Early events in protein traffic in yeast
1989-99 Group Leader at Institut Jacques Monod, Paris (89-90), then at CEA, Saclay (91-99)
Protein transport in yeasts' secretory pathway
1992-2004 Associate Professor of Biology at Ecole Polytechnique
1993-1997 Professor-level Qualification in "Cell Biology" CNU65
Since 1995 Research Director at CNRS
1999-2005 Associate Member of the Institute of Plant Sciences (ISV CNRS, Gif)
Morphodynamics of the Plant and yeast secretory pathways
1999-2007 Group Leader of the ATelier de Génomique Cognitive ATGC at Genopole® Evry
Cognitive approaches to (post-)genomic studies
2001-2012 Associate Member of the Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée, Ecole Polytechnique
Towards an Artificial Scientific Assistant
Since 2003 Founding co-director of the Epigenomics Project (Genopole®), an Institute of Complex Studies dedicated to the new biology
Modelling for understanding
2005-2010 Founding Coordinator of Systems & Synthetic Biology theme at PRES UniverSud Paris
2007-2009 Founding Coordinator of the institute of Systems & Synthetic Biology iSSB
2007-2010 Founding Coordinator of the European master 2 in Systems & Synthetic Biology mSSB
2008-2010 Director of CNRS Unit UPS3201
Since 2008 Coordinator of CNRS GDRE513 "European Research Network in Systems Biology"
2010-2013 Professor-level Qualification in "Biochemistry and Molecular Biology" CNU64
Since 2011 permanent Invited Professor at Imperial College London
Since 2013 Coordinator of the French Forum of Synthetic Biology
Since 2013 Member of the National Academy of Technologies of France