100 Notable alumni of
Paris Diderot University

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Paris Diderot University is 432nd in the world, 148th in Europe, and 10th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Paris Diderot University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Laurent Gbagbo

    Laurent Gbagbo
    Born in
    Ivory Coast Flag Ivory Coast
    Years
    1945-.. (age 80)
    Occupations
    writerpoliticianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Koudou Laurent Gbagbo is an Ivorian politician who was the president of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011. He was the first President in the history of the country that was a Centre-left politician. A historian, Gbagbo was imprisoned in the early 1970s and again in the early 1990s, and he lived in exile in France during much of the 1980s as a result of his union activism. Gbagbo founded the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) in 1982 and ran unsuccessfully for president against Félix Houphouët-Boigny at the start of multi-party politics in 1990. He won a seat in the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire in 1990.

  2. Sibeth Ndiaye

    Sibeth Ndiaye
    Born in
    Senegal Flag Senegal
    Years
    1979-.. (age 46)
    Occupations
    politiciancommunications adviser
    Biography

    Sibeth Ndiaye is a French-Senegalese communications advisor who served as Spokesperson of the Government under Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 1 April 2019 to 6 July 2020.

  3. Alexis Corbière

    Alexis Corbière
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1968-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    politicianprofessors, scientific professionsteacher
    Biography

    Alexis Corbière is a French politician. He has been member of the National Assembly for the 7th constituency of the Seine-Saint-Denis department since 2017. Corbière was also a spokesperson for La France Insoumise and the party's leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2017 French presidential election, before falling out of favor with party leadership prior to the snap 2024 legislative election, in which La France Insoumise supported a previously-unelected candidate against Corbière. He survived the "purge" by winning the 7th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis with 57.16% of the vote.

  4. Cécile Duflot

    Cécile Duflot
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1975-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Cécile Duflot is a French non-governmental organisation (NGO) leader and former politician. She has been a government minister and political party leader.

  5. Axel Kahn

    Axel Kahn
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1944-2021 (aged 77)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1974 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    physicianpoliticianscience communicatorgeneticistbiologist
    Biography

    Axel Kahn was a French geneticist. He was the brother of the journalist Jean-François Kahn and the chemist Olivier Kahn. He was a member of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee from 1992 to 2004 and worked in gene therapy. He first entered the INSERM with a specialization in biochemistry. He was named in 2002 as a counsellor for biosciences and biotechnologies matters by the European Commission. Head of French laboratories specialized in biomedical sciences between years 1984 and 2007, he was elected President of the Paris Descartes University in December 2007, as the sole candidate.

  6. Verónika Mendoza

    Verónika Mendoza
    Born in
    Peru Flag Peru
    Years
    1980-.. (age 45)
    Occupations
    anthropologistpoliticianpsychologist
    Biography

    Verónika Fanny Mendoza Frisch is a Peruvian-French psychologist, educator, and politician. She is the founder and current leader of the New Peru movement.

  7. Pascal Bruckner

    Pascal Bruckner
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1948-.. (age 77)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1975 graduated with doctorate in France in philosophy
    Occupations
    philosopherscreenwriternovelistessayist
    Biography

    Pascal Bruckner is a French writer, one of the "New Philosophers" who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. Much of his work has been devoted to critiques of French society and culture.

  8. Claudie Haigneré

    Claudie Haigneré
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1957-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    astronautpoliticianphysician
    Biography

    Claudie Haigneré ( French pronunciation: [klodi ɛɲʁe]; born 13 May 1957) is a French doctor, politician and former astronaut. She was the first female astronaut of the French space agency CNES and the European Space Agency (ESA) to go to space.

  9. Jean-Christophe Cambadélis

    Jean-Christophe Cambadélis
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1951-.. (age 74)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1985 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Jean-Christophe Cambadélis is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as the party's First Secretary from April 2014 to June 2017. He was a member of the National Assembly of France, representing the city of Paris, as a member of the Socialist, Republican & Citizen.

  10. Delphine Batho

    Delphine Batho
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1973-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    cadres de la fonction publiquepolitician
    Biography

    Delphine Batho is a French politician of Ecology Generation who has been serving as member of the National Assembly. She is a former Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. As a candidate in the 2021 ecologist primary, she came in third place with 22.32% of the vote, advocating degrowth. She was re-elected as a member of parliament in the 2022 legislative elections.

  11. Michel Aupetit

    Michel Aupetit
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1951-.. (age 74)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1979 graduated with doctorate in France in medicine
    Occupations
    Catholic bishopwriterCatholic priesttheologianCatholic deacon
    Biography

    Michel Christian Alain Aupetit is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Paris from 2018 to 2021, when he resigned following reports of a relationship with a woman in 2012.

  12. Hervé Le Tellier

    Hervé Le Tellier
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1957-.. (age 68)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 2002 graduated with doctorate in France in social sciences and humanities and humanities
    Occupations
    poetliterary criticwriterjournalistmathematician
    Biography

    Hervé Le Tellier is a French writer and linguist, and a member of the international literary group Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, which translates roughly as "workshop of potential literature"). He is its fourth president. Other notable members have included Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, Jacques Roubaud, Jean Lescure and Harry Mathews. He won the 2020 Prix Goncourt for The Anomaly.

  13. Marie Darrieussecq

    Marie Darrieussecq
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1969-.. (age 56)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
    Occupations
    writerpsychoanalyst
    Biography

    Marie Darrieussecq is a French writer. She is also a translator, and has practised as a psychoanalyst.

  14. Benjamin Stora

    Benjamin Stora
    Born in
    Algeria Flag Algeria
    Years
    1950-.. (age 75)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1984 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    historianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Benjamin Stora is a French historian, expert on North Africa, who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family that left the country following its War of Independence in 1962. Stora holds two PhDs (1974 and 1984) and a Doctorate of the State (1991).

  15. Ali Nesin

    Ali Nesin
    Born in
    Turkey Flag Turkey
    Years
    1957-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    university teachermathematicianeducator
    Biography

    Hüseyin Ali Nesin is a Turkish Prof. Mathematician and scientist He was born in November 18 1956 in İstanbul. His father is the well known writer Aziz Nesin, and his mother is Meral Çelen.

  16. Péter Frankl

    Péter Frankl
    Born in
    Hungary Flag Hungary
    Years
    1953-.. (age 72)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    Studied in 1975
    Occupations
    university teachermathematiciancircus performerstreet artist
    Biography

    Péter Frankl is a mathematician, street performer, columnist and educator, active in Japan. Frankl studied mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and submitted his PhD thesis while still an undergraduate. He holds a PhD degree from the University Paris Diderot as well. He has lived in Japan since 1988, where he is a well-known personality and often appears in the media. He keeps travelling around Japan performing (juggling and giving public lectures on various topics). Frankl won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1971. He has seven joint papers with Paul Erdős, and eleven joint papers with Ronald Graham. His research is in combinatorics, especially in extremal combinatorics. He is the author of the union-closed sets conjecture.

  17. Serge Venturini

    Serge Venturini
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1955-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    collection managertranslatorpoetteacher
    Biography

    Serge Venturini is a French poet. Poet of devenir ("destiny"), several metamorphoses run through his poetry. From his poetics of human destiny, through post-human and transhuman poetics, he came to the transvisible thematic.

  18. François Jullien

    François Jullien
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1951-.. (age 74)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1983 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    university teachersinologisthellenistphilosopher
    Biography

    François Jullien is a French philosopher, Hellenist, and sinologist.

  19. Marie-Hélène Lafon

    Marie-Hélène Lafon
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1962-.. (age 63)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    Graduated with doctorate in France in humanities
    Occupations
    professeur agrégéwriter
    Biography

    Marie-Hélène Lafon is a French educator and award-winning writer.

  20. Jean-Michel Cohen

    Jean-Michel Cohen
    Born in
    Algeria Flag Algeria
    Years
    1960-.. (age 65)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1983 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    physiciantelevision presenternutritionistconsultant
    Biography

    Jean-Michel Cohen is a French nutritionist and author, best known for the Parisian Diet.

  21. Laurence Gayte

    Laurence Gayte
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1965-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    corporate administrative and commercial executivepoliticianbusiness executive
    Biography

    Laurence Gayte is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since 2017, where she represents the 3rd constituency of the Pyrénées-Orientales.

  22. Malek Chebel

    Malek Chebel
    Born in
    Algeria Flag Algeria
    Years
    1953-2016 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    writertranslatoranthropologistphilosopher
    Biography

    Malek Chebel was a notable Algerian philosopher and anthropologist of religions. He was one of the most prominent North African intellectuals. He studied in Algeria, then later in France at Paris where he also studied psychoanalysis. He was a teacher at many universities worldwide.

  23. Anne Cheng

    Anne Cheng
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1955-.. (age 70)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1982 graduated with doctorate in France in oriental studies
    Occupations
    university teachercollection managertranslatorsinologist
    Biography

    Anne Cheng is a French Sinologist who teaches at the Collège de France and specializes in Chinese history and the history of Chinese philosophy. Pablo Ariel Blitstein, the author of "A new debate about alterity," describes her as an "important representative of French sinology".

  24. Alain Gresh

    Alain Gresh
    Born in
    Egypt Flag Egypt
    Years
    1948-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    journalist
    Biography

    Alain Gresh is a French communist party leader and journalist.

  25. Philippe Aigrain

    Philippe Aigrain
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1949-2021 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    computer scientist
    Biography

    Philippe Aigrain was a French computer scientist, activist and researcher.

  26. Jean-Pierre Luminet

    Jean-Pierre Luminet
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1951-.. (age 74)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1985 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    astrophysicistpoetlecturerwriterastronomer
    Biography

    Jean-Pierre Luminet is a French astrophysicist, specializing in black holes and cosmology. He is an emeritus research director at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique). Luminet is a member of the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) and Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH) of the Paris-Meudon Observatory, and is a visiting scientist at the Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT) in Marseilles. He is also a writer and poet.

  27. Marie de Hennezel

    Marie de Hennezel
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1946-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    psychologistpsychotherapistpsychoanalystwriternon-fiction writer
    Biography

    Marie de Hennezel is a French psychologist, psychotherapist and writer. She is known for her commitment to improving conditions at the end of life. Her books, her two reports to the government, and her speeches on the subject have contributed to the evolution of the image of aging and old age in society.

  28. Jean Claude Ameisen

    Jean Claude Ameisen
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1951-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    physicianresearcherradio personalityimmunologistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Jean Claude Ameisen is a French doctor, immunologist and researcher in biology. He is Director of the Center for Life Studies of the Paris Institute of Humanities, Paris Diderot University and President of the National Consultative Ethics Committee (2012–2016).

  29. Michel Broué

    Michel Broué
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1946-.. (age 79)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1975 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Michel Broué is a French mathematician. He holds a chair at Paris Diderot University. Broué has made contributions to algebraic geometry and representation theory.

  30. Anne Ancelin Schützenberger

    Anne Ancelin Schützenberger
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1919-2018 (aged 99)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1970 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    psychotherapistuniversity teacherpsychologist
    Biography

    Anne Ancelin Schützenberger was a French psychologist and psychotherapist. During the Second World War she was a member of the French Resistance.

  31. Lilith Verstrynge

    Lilith Verstrynge
    Born in
    Spain Flag Spain
    Years
    1992-.. (age 33)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Lilith Verstrynge Revuelta is a Spanish former politician. The daughter of Jorge Verstrynge, with whom she shared membership of Podemos, she served in the Congress of Deputies for six months up to January 2024, and was Secretary of State for the 2030 Agenda from July 2022 to November 2023.

  32. Djené Kaba Condé

    Djené Kaba Condé
    Born in
    Guinea Flag Guinea
    Years
    1960-2023 (aged 63)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    1984-1988 graduated with French university master in sociology and communication science
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Djene Kaba Condé served as the first lady of Guinea from 2010 until her husband Alpha Condé's overthrow during the 2021 Guinean coup d'état. She had three children.

  33. Catherine Cusset

    Catherine Cusset
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1963-.. (age 62)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1990 graduated with doctorate in France in French literature
    Occupations
    non-fiction writernovelist
    Biography

    Catherine Cusset is a best-selling French novelist and the author of Life of David Hockney: A Novel (Other Press, 2019), The Story of Jane (Simon & Schuster, 2001), and 12 other novels published by Éditions Gallimard between 1990 and 2018. Some of her novels (Jouir, La Haine de la famille, Confessions d'un radine, and New York, Journal d’un cycle) are described as autofiction, a French literary movement that is a hybrid of fiction and autobiography. Others are more romantic, but all share some recurring themes: the family, desire, and cultural conflicts between France and America. She stands out from her contemporaries with a direct, incisive, visual form of writing, marked by the influence of Anglo-Saxon novelists.

  34. Gilles Pisier

    Gilles Pisier
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1950-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Gilles I. Pisier is a professor of mathematics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and a distinguished professor and A.G. and M.E. Owen Chair of Mathematics at the Texas A&M University. He is known for his contributions to several fields of mathematics, including functional analysis, probability theory, harmonic analysis, and operator theory. He has also made fundamental contributions to the theory of C*-algebras. Gilles is the younger brother of French actress Marie-France Pisier.

  35. Miguel Benasayag

    Miguel Benasayag
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1953-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    psychoanalystphilosopher
    Biography

    Miguel Benasayag is an Argentine philosopher, psychoanalyst, epistemology researcher and former Guévariste resistance fighter. He is close to the left-libertarian movement. He also holds French citizenship.

  36. André Brahic

    André Brahic
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1942-2016 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    astrophysicistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    André Fernand Brahic was a French astrophysicist. He is known for his discovery (1984) of the rings of Neptune.

  37. Dominique Kalifa

    Dominique Kalifa
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1957-2020 (aged 63)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1994 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    university teacherhigh-school teachercriminologisthistoriandocent
    Biography

    Dominique Kalifa was a French historian, columnist and professor.

  38. Bracha L. Ettinger

    Bracha L. Ettinger
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1948-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    photographerpsychoanalystpainterphilosopher
    Biography

    Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger is an Israeli-French artist, writer, psychoanalyst and philosopher based in France. Born in Mandatory Palestine, she lives and works in Paris. She is a feminist theorist and artist in contemporary New European Painting who invented the concepts of the matrixial space, Matrixial Gaze and related concepts around trauma, aesthetics and ethics. Ettinger is a professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and at GCAS, Dublin. In 2023, she was part of the Finding Committee for the Artistic Director of Documenta's 2027 edition. She resigned from that role with a public letter intended to open a radical discussion in the artworld, following the administration's rejection of her request for a pause due to the attacks on civilians in Israel and in Gaza and the ongoing heavy losses of life.

  39. Alain Ehrenberg

    Alain Ehrenberg
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1950-.. (age 75)
    Occupations
    sociologistDirector of Research at CNRS
    Biography

    Alain Ehrenberg is a French sociologist, known for his major work on clinical depression, The Weariness of the Self. His work focuses on the culture of individualism in modern times, and its relationship to mental health. As of 2023 he is research director at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris.

  40. François Dosse

    François Dosse
    Years
    1950-.. (age 75)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    Studied in 1983
    Occupations
    epistemologistprofesseur des universitéshistorian
    Biography

    François Dosse is a French historian and philosopher who specializes in intellectual history.

  41. Christian Bouchet

    Christian Bouchet
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1955-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    publisheressayistpolitical activist
    Biography

    Christian Bouchet is a French far-right journalist and politician.

  42. Henri Atlan

    Henri Atlan
    Born in
    Algeria Flag Algeria
    Years
    1931-.. (age 94)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1971 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    university teacherbiophysicistbiologistphilosopher
    Biography

    Henri Atlan is a French biophysicist and philosopher.

  43. Xavier Leroy

    Xavier Leroy
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1968-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    university teachercomputer scientistengineerprogrammer
    Biography

    Xavier Leroy is a French computer scientist and programmer. He is best known for his role as a primary developer of the OCaml system. He is Professor of software science at Collège de France. Before his appointment at Collège de France in 2018, he was senior scientist (directeur de recherche) at the French government research institution Inria.

  44. Jacques Lévy

    Jacques Lévy
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1952-.. (age 73)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1993 graduated with doctorate in France in geography
    Occupations
    geopolitical analystuniversity teachergeographer
    Biography

    Jacques Lévy is a professor of geography and urbanism at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He is the director of Chôros Laboratory and of the Doctoral Program in Architecture and Science of the City. He is the cofounder of the scientific journal EspacesTemps.net ( ISSN 1777-5477). He published in French, along with Michel Lussault, the dictionary of geography and space of societies, Dictionnaire de la géographie et de l’espace des sociétés.He has contributed to in the epistemological and theoretical reform of geography as a science of the spatial dimension of the social, open to the social sciences and philosophy. Starting from political geography, he has most notably explored the city, urbanity, Europe and globalization. He works also for the introduction of non-verbal languages, especially audio-visual languages, at all levels of research. In 2013 he made a feature film, Urbanity/ies, which is intended as a manifesto for scientific film.

  45. Françoise Combes

    Françoise Combes
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1952-.. (age 73)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1975 graduated with doctorate in France
    In 1980 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    editorphysicistastrophysicistresearcherastronomer
    Biography

    Françoise Combes is a French astrophysicist at the Paris Observatory and a professor at the Collège de France where she has been the chair of Galaxies and cosmology since 2014.

  46. Lalla Malika Issoufou

    Lalla Malika Issoufou
    Born in
    Niger Flag Niger
    Years
    1975-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Lalla Malika Issoufou is a Nigerien medical doctor and patron of many charities. She served as First Lady of Niger, alongside Aïssata Issoufou Mahamadou, from 7 April 2011 to 2 April 2021 as the second wife of President Mahamadou Issoufou.

  47. Marie-Jo Bonnet

    Marie-Jo Bonnet
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1949-.. (age 76)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    Studied in 1979
    Occupations
    art historianwriterhistoriangender historian
    Biography

    Marie-Josèphe Bonnet is a French specialist in the history of women, history of art, and history of lesbians. She has also published books in the history of the French resistance and occupation.

  48. Gilles Bloch

    Gilles Bloch
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1961-.. (age 64)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1991 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    physician
    Biography

    Gilles Bloch is a French polytechnicien, doctor of medicine and researcher in molecular biophysics, specializing in muscle and brain metabolism. He was director general of research and innovation from 2006 to 2009, then president of Paris-Saclay University between 2015 and 2018, and president of Inserm between 2019 and 2023. Since September 2023, he has served as President of the National Museum of Natural History, France.

  49. Pascale Ehrenfreund

    Pascale Ehrenfreund
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1960-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    university teacherastronomer
    Biography

    Pascale Ehrenfreund is an Austrian astrophysicist. Ehrenfreund holds degrees from the University of Vienna (Masters, molecular biology; PhD astrophysics, habilitation, astrochemistry) and Webster Leiden (Masters, management and leadership). Prior to becoming a Research Professor of Space Policy and International Affairs at George Washington University, she was a professor at Radboud University Nijmegen, Leiden University, and University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She was the first woman president of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and from 2015-2020, she was the CEO of the German Aerospace Center. Since 2019, she is the President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and since 2018, she is the Chancellor of the International Space University (ISU). Since 2021 she is president of the ISU. The main-belt asteroid 9826 Ehrenfreund is named in her honor. She is the President of Committee on Space Research from 2022 to 2026.

  50. Léa Fazer

    Léa Fazer
    Born in
    Switzerland Flag Switzerland
    Years
    1965-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    actorfilm actorscreenwriterfilm directortheatrical director
    Biography

    Léa Fazer is a Swiss film director, screenwriter and actress. She studied film at the University Paris Diderot. Her film Bienvenue en Suisse was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

  51. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

    Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1947-.. (age 78)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1974 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    mathematician
    Biography

    Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician, working in the field of differential geometry.

  52. Carlos Moore

    Carlos Moore
    Born in
    Cuba Flag Cuba
    Years
    1942-.. (age 83)
    Occupations
    writerjournalistacademic
    Biography

    Carlos Moore is a writer, social researcher, professor and activist, dedicated to the study of African and Afro-American history and culture. Moore holds two doctorates, in Human sciences and in Ethnology from the Paris Diderot University, and speaks five languages. At various periods he lived in France, Africa, the United States of America, Brazil and the Caribbean

  53. Moritz Schularick

    Moritz Schularick
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1975-.. (age 50)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1998 graduated with master's degree
    Occupations
    university teachereconomic historianeconomist
    Biography

    Moritz Schularick is a German economist, who is Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Bonn. He works in the fields of macrofinance, banking and financial stability, as well as international finance, political economy, and economic history.

  54. Gérard Berry

    Gérard Berry
    Years
    1948-.. (age 77)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    Graduated with doctorate in France in mathematics
    Occupations
    engineercomputer scientistresearcher
    Biography

    Gérard Philippe Berry is a French computer scientist, member of the French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences), French Academy of Technologies (Académie des technologies), and Academia Europaea. He was the Chief Scientist Officer of Esterel Technologies from 2000 to 2009. He held the 2007-2008 yearly Liliane Bettencourt chair of Technological Innovation at the Collège de France. He was Director of Research at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis and held the 2009-2010 yearly Informatics and Digital Sciences chair at the Collège de France. Berry's work, which spans over more than 30 years, brought important contributions to three main fields:

  55. Silvio Tendler

    Silvio Tendler
    Born in
    Brazil Flag Brazil
    Years
    1950-.. (age 75)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1976 graduated with master's degree
    Occupations
    film directorscreenwriter
    Biography

    Silvio Tendler is a Brazilian filmmaker. With more than 40 films released by 2014, including feature and short films, Tendler is one of the most respected Brazilian documentarist. Due to his focus on people like Juscelino Kubitschek, João Goulart, and Carlos Marighella, he is known as "the filmmaker of the defeated" or "the filmmaker of interrupted dreams".

  56. Gérard Huet

    Gérard Huet
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1947-.. (age 78)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1976 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    engineeruniversity teacherlogiciancomputer scientistmathematician
    Biography

    Gérard Pierre Huet is a French computer scientist, linguist and mathematician. He is senior research director at INRIA and mostly known for his major and seminal contributions to type theory, programming language theory and to the theory of computation.

  57. Philippe Flajolet

    Philippe Flajolet
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1948-2011 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    mathematiciancomputer scientistresearcherengineer
    Biography

    Philippe Flajolet was a French computer scientist.

  58. Evelyne Gebhardt

    Evelyne Gebhardt
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1954-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    translatorpolitician
    Biography

    Evelyne Gebhardt is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2022. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Party of European Socialists.

  59. Laura Chaubard

    Laura Chaubard
    Years
    1980-.. (age 45)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    2003-2007 graduated with doctorate in France in mathematics
    Occupations
    computer scientist
    Biography

    Laura Chaubard is a French mathematician and the Director General of the École polytechnique, the leading French engineering school with alumni such as Ampère, Becquerel, Coriolis, Carnot, Cauchy, Fresnel, Poincaré and Mandelbrot.

  60. Philippe Sansonetti

    Philippe Sansonetti
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1949-.. (age 76)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1978 graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
    Occupations
    professorresearchermicrobiologist
    Biography

    Philippe J. Sansonetti is a French microbiologist, professor at the Pasteur Institute and the Collège de France in Paris. He is the director of the Inserm Unit 786 (Microbial colonisation and invasion of mucosa) and of the Institut Pasteur laboratory Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire.

  61. Jean-Yves Béziau

    Jean-Yves Béziau
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1965-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    editor-in-chiefuniversity teacherlogicianphilosophermathematician
    Biography

    Jean-Yves Beziau ( French:; born January 15, 1965, in Orléans, France is a Swiss Professor in logic at the University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, and Researcher of the Brazilian Research Council. He is permanent member and former president of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy. Before going to Brazil, he was Professor of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland and researcher at Stanford University working with Patrick Suppes.

  62. Pascale Cossart

    Pascale Cossart
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1948-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    bacteriologistbiologistchemist
    Biography

    Pascale Cossart is a French bacteriologist who is affiliated with the Pasteur Institute of Paris. She is the foremost authority on Listeria monocytogenes, a deadly and common food-borne pathogen responsible for encephalitis, meningitis, bacteremia, gastroenteritis, and other diseases.

  63. Kamissa Camara

    Kamissa Camara
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1983-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    pundit
    Biography

    Kamissa Camara is a Malian political analyst and politician. She is the former chief of staff to the President of Malian Republic after she resigned from the position on September 24, 2020.

  64. Sabrina Sebaihi

    Sabrina Sebaihi
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1981-.. (age 44)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    2006-2007 graduated with French university master in public health
    Occupations
    miscellaneous persons without work under 60 excluding retireespoliticianprofessions libérales et assimilés
    Biography

    Sabrina Sebaihi is a French politician from The Ecologists. She became the Member of Parliament for Hauts-de-Seine's 4th constituency in the 2022 French legislative election.

  65. Alain Borer

    Alain Borer
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1949-.. (age 76)
    Occupations
    travel writerplaywrightnon-fiction writeruniversity teacherwriter
    Biography

    Alain Borer is a French poet, travel writer, novelist, playwright, art critic, essayist, and specialist of the life and works of Arthur Rimbaud. He has been Professor of Aesthetics at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Tours-Angers-Le Mans from 1979 until 2014, and is Visiting Professor of French Literature at the University of Southern California (USC) since 2005. Alain Borer is the President of the national annual poetry festival Printemps des Poètes, President of the Robert Ganzo Poetry Prize (sponsored by the Fondation de France), and President of the International Association of the Friends of Arthur Rimbaud. He teaches a regular poetry workshop at the Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF – Editions Gallimard). In 2005, he received the Edouard Glissant Prize for the ensemble of his achievements, awarded by the University of Paris VIII. In 2011, he received the Prix Maurice-Genevois of the Académie Française. Alain Borer lives in Paris, in Los Angeles, and in Chaumussay (south of Tours, France).

  66. Hélène Esnault

    Hélène Esnault
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1953-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Hélène Esnault is a French and German mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.

  67. François Grosjean

    François Grosjean
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1946-.. (age 79)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1972 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    university teacherlinguist
    Biography

    François Grosjean is a Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Language and Speech Processing Laboratory at the University of Neuchâtel. His specialty is psycholinguistics and his domains of interest are the perception, comprehension and production of language, be it speech or sign language, in monolinguals and bilinguals. He also has interests in biculturalism, applied linguistics, aphasia, sign language, and natural language processing. He is better known for his work on bilingualism in which he has investigated the holistic view of bilingualism, language mode, the complementarity principle, and the processing of code-switching and borrowing. In one of his most-cited papers, Grosjean argues that hearing-impaired children have the right to grow up bilingual, learning two languages—namely, sign language and oral language.

  68. Philippe Froguel

    Philippe Froguel
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1958-.. (age 67)
    Occupations
    geneticistphysician
    Biography

    Philippe Froguel is a French physician and scientist who serves as chair in Genomic Medicine in the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction at Imperial College London. His research has focused on the genetics of human diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. This includes research identifying the genes glucokinase and HNF1 risk factors for type 2 diabetes. In 2007, he was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK). In 2017, he was elected corresponding member of the French Académie Nationale de Médecine, and he is also a member of the Mexican National Academy of Medicine (Academia Nacional de Medicina de México).

  69. Christof Wetterich

    Christof Wetterich
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1952-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    university teacherastrophysicisttheoretical physicistphysicist
    Biography

    Christof Wetterich is a German theoretical physicist. He is known for researches in quintessence, Wetterich equation for Functional renormalization, Asymptotic safety in quantum gravity.

  70. Stéphane Bortzmeyer

    Stéphane Bortzmeyer
    Years
    20th Century
    Occupations
    computer scientist
    Biography

    Stéphane Bortzmeyer is a French engineer specialised in computer networks.

  71. Gérard Ben Arous

    Gérard Ben Arous
    Years
    1957-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    academicmathematician
    Biography

    Gérard Ben Arous is a French mathematician, specializing in stochastic analysis and its applications to mathematical physics. He served as the director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University from 2011 to 2016.

  72. Sihem Badi

    Sihem Badi
    Born in
    Tunisia Flag Tunisia
    Years
    1967-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Sihem Badi is a Tunisian politician. She served as the Minister of Women's Affairs under Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali.

  73. Guillaume Jacques

    Guillaume Jacques
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1979-.. (age 46)
    Occupations
    linguistresearcher
    Biography

    Guillaume Jacques is a French linguist who specializes in the study of Sino-Tibetan languages: Old Chinese, Tangut, Tibetan, Gyalrongic and Kiranti languages. He also performs research on the Algonquian and Siouan language families and publishes about languages of other families such as Breton. His case studies in historical phonology are set in the framework of panchronic phonology, aiming to formulate generalizations about sound change that are independent of any particular language or language group.

  74. Emmanuelle Lambert

    Emmanuelle Lambert
    Years
    1975-.. (age 50)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 2003 graduated with doctorate in France in social sciences and humanities and humanities
    Occupations
    writerexhibition curator
    Biography

    Emmanuelle Lambert is a French writer.

  75. Arnaud Beauville

    Arnaud Beauville
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1947-.. (age 78)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1977 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Arnaud Beauville is a French mathematician, whose research interest is algebraic geometry.

  76. Ramata Ly-Bakayoko

    Ramata Ly-Bakayoko
    Born in
    Ivory Coast Flag Ivory Coast
    Years
    1955-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    politicianuniversity presidentacademic
    Biography

    Ramata Ly-Bakayoko is an Ivorian academic and government official. She served as Ivory Coast's Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research from 2016 to 2018. She was appointed Minister of Women, Families, and Children in 2018. She was appointed permanent delegate of Côte d'Ivoire to UNESCO with residence in Paris on September 8, 2021.

  77. Pierre Berthelot

    Pierre Berthelot
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1943-2023 (aged 80)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1972 graduated with doctorate in France in mathematics
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Pierre Berthelot was a French mathematician at the University of Rennes. He developed crystalline cohomology and rigid cohomology. Berthelot died on 7 December 2023.

  78. Arkan Simaan

    Arkan Simaan
    Born in
    Lebanon Flag Lebanon
    Years
    1945-.. (age 80)
    Occupations
    writer
    Biography

    Arkan Simaan is a Lebanese-French novelist.

  79. Françoise Thébaud

    Françoise Thébaud
    Years
    1952-.. (age 73)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1982 graduated with doctorate in France
    Occupations
    writeruniversity teacherhistorian
    Biography

    Françoise Thébaud is a French historian, professor emeritus of history, and specialist in the history of women. In 2017, she was awarded the Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.

  80. Raphaël Rouquier

    Raphaël Rouquier
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1969-.. (age 56)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1992 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
    Occupations
    university teachermathematicianacademic
    Biography

    Raphaël Alexis Marcel Rouquier is a French mathematician and a professor of mathematics at UCLA.

  81. Serge Vaudenay

    Serge Vaudenay
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1968-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    computer scientistcryptographer
    Biography

    Serge Vaudenay is a French cryptographer and professor, director of the Communications Systems Section at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  82. Fatou Sow

    Fatou Sow
    Born in
    Senegal Flag Senegal
    Years
    1940-.. (age 85)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1998 graduated with habilitation in sociology
    Occupations
    university teachersociologist
    Biography

    Fatou Sow is a Senegalese feminist sociologist specialising in sociology of gender.

  83. François Labourie

    François Labourie
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1960-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    mathematician
    Biography

    François Labourie is a French mathematician who has made various contributions to geometry, including pseudoholomorphic curves, Anosov diffeomorphisms, and convex geometry. In a series of papers with Yves Benoist and Patrick Foulon, he solved a conjecture on Anosov flows in compact contact manifolds.

  84. Beatriz Barbuy

    Beatriz Barbuy
    Born in
    Brazil Flag Brazil
    Years
    1950-.. (age 75)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1982 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
    Occupations
    astronomeruniversity teacherastrophysicist
    Biography

    Beatriz Leonor Silveira Barbuy is a Brazilian astrophysicist. She was described in 2009 by Época magazine as one of the 100 most influential Brazilians. She is a professor at the Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas at the University of São Paulo, vice-president of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), and one of five winners of the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science in 2009.

  85. Joris van der Hoeven

    Joris van der Hoeven
    Years
    1971-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    computer scientistmathematician
    Biography

    Joris van der Hoeven is a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist, specializing in algebraic analysis and computer algebra. He is the primary developer of GNU TeXmacs.

  86. Bernard Teissier

    Bernard Teissier
    Years
    1945-.. (age 80)
    Occupations
    mathematicianuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Bernard Teissier is a French mathematician and a member of the Nicolas Bourbaki group. He has made major contributions to algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, specifically to singularity theory, multiplicity theory and valuation theory.

  87. Rama Ayalon

    Rama Ayalon
    Born in
    Israel Flag Israel
    Years
    1977-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    translator
    Biography

    Rama Ayalon is an Israeli translator of French literature into Hebrew. She has translated over 100 books, encompassing classic and contemporary prose, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Her translations include important philosophical works such as Pensées by Blaise Pascal and Totalité et infini by Emmanuel Lévinas. Among the prose authors she has translated are Michel Houellebecq, Georges Simenon, Marguerite Duras, Guy de Maupassant, Romain Gary, Milan Kundera, Delphine de Vigan, and Leïla Slimani.

  88. Jeon Soo-il

    Jeon Soo-il
    Born in
    South Korea Flag South Korea
    Years
    1959-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
    Biography

    Jeon Soo-il is a South Korean film director, film producer and screenwriter. After graduating from the Department of Theatre & Film of Kyungsung University in Busan, he studied Film Direction at Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (E.S.R.A) in France from 1988 to 1992. He completed his master and doctorate degrees in Film Science at the Paris Diderot University in Paris, France. He is currently an associate professor of the Department of Theatre & Film of Kyungsung University and the president of Dongnyuk Film.

  89. Alain Bui

    Alain Bui
    Years
    1969-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    university teachercomputer scientistresearch fellow
    Biography

    Alain Bui is a French academic who's specialized in information technology, and the current president of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University.

  90. Marie Farge

    Marie Farge
    Years
    1953-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    physicistmathematician
    Biography

    Marie Farge is a French mathematician and physicist who works as a director of research at CNRS, the French National Centre for Scientific Research. She is known for her research on wavelets and turbulence in fluid mechanics.

  91. Monique Laurent

    Monique Laurent
    Years
    1960-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    computer scientistresearchermathematician
    Biography

    Monique Laurent is a French computer scientist and mathematician who is an expert in mathematical optimization. She is a researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam where she is also a member of the Management Team. Laurent also holds a part-time position as a professor of econometrics and operations research at Tilburg University.

  92. Élodie Guégan

    Élodie Guégan
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1985-.. (age 40)
    Occupations
    athletics competitor
    Biography

    Élodie Guégan is a French middle distance runner, who specialized in the 800 metres. She won two medals, silver and bronze, for the 800 metres at the 2005 European Athletics U23 Championships in Erfurt, Germany, and at the 2007 European Athletics U23 Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. She also set a personal best time of 1:58.93 by finishing fifth at the 2008 ÅF Golden League in Saint-Denis, Paris.

  93. Delphine Gardey

    Delphine Gardey
    Years
    1967-.. (age 58)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    1991-1995 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
    Occupations
    university teacherwriterhistoriansociologist
    Biography

    Delphine Gardey is a French historian and sociologist. She is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and director of the Institute of Gender Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She is currently a member of the editorial board of the journal Travail, Genre et Sociétés. She is also affiliated with "Groupement De Recherche Européen" (GDRE) (English: European Research Group) and "Marché du travail et genre en Europe" (MAGE) (English: Labor market and gender in Europe). She is a member of the "Genre, Travail, Mobilités" (GTM) (English: Gender, Work, Mobilities) Laboratory of "Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris" (CRESPPA) (English: Paris Center for Sociological and Political Research). Her work focuses mainly on the history of science and technology studies, feminist theories, as well as the place of women in history and society in general.

  94. Dominique Perrin

    Dominique Perrin
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1946-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    computer scientistmathematician
    Biography

    Dominique Pierre Perrin is a French mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to coding theory and to combinatorics on words. He is a professor of the University of Marne-la-Vallée and currently serves as the President of ESIEE Paris.

  95. Anne Abeillé

    Anne Abeillé
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1962-.. (age 63)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    Studied in 1988-1991
    In 1999 graduated with habilitation to Supervise Research
    Occupations
    professeur des universitésresearcherlinguist
    Biography

    Anne Abeillé is a French linguist specialising in French grammar and syntactic theory, in particular constraint-based grammar, as well as natural language processing. She led the creation of the French Treebank, the first syntactically-annotated corpus of French.

  96. Nicolas Fiévé

    Nicolas Fiévé
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1959-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    historianorientalist
    Biography

    Nicolas Bernard Fiévé is a French historian of Japanese Architecture; he was born in Paris in 1959 and is the son of the cinema decorator, Bernard Fiévé. In 1993, he became a member of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and in 1996 he joined the Collège de France’s Japanese Civilization research team. In 2007, he was elected Professor at the Historical and Philological Sciences Department at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), where he teaches the history of pre-modern (16th to 19th centuries) Japanese urbanism, architecture and gardens. He is a member of the Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan. Nicolas Fiévé is currently Director of the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), or French School of Asian Studies.

  97. Simon Harel

    Simon Harel
    Years
    1957-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    writeruniversity teacheressayist
    Biography

    Simon Harel is a Canadian intellectual. In addition to being a prolific writer and speaker and an adjunct professor at the Département d'études littéraires of the Université du Québec à Montréal, he is full professor at and Director of the Département de littérature comparée of the University of Montreal.

  98. Maurice Dayan

    Maurice Dayan
    Born in
    France Flag France
    Years
    1935-2020 (aged 85)
    Enrolled in Paris Diderot University
    In 1983 graduated with doctorate
    Occupations
    professeur des universitéspsychoanalyst
    Biography

    Maurice Dayan was a French psychoanalyst and university professor.

  99. Noura Borsali

    Noura Borsali
    Years
    1953-2017 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    women's rights activisttrade unionistliterary criticjournalistfilm critic
    Biography

    Noura Borsali was a Tunisian academic, journalist, writer, literary critic and film critic, as well as a trade unionist, a human rights activist and a figure of Tunisian feminism.

  100. Andrzej Włodarczyk

    Andrzej Włodarczyk
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1944-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    japanologistlinguist
    Biography

    Andrzej Aleksander Włodarczyk, known as André Wlodarczyk, is a Polish-French linguist.