100 Notable alumni of
Pierre and Marie Curie University
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Pierre and Marie Curie University is 458th in the world, 163rd in Europe, and 12th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Pierre and Marie Curie University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn
- Occupations
- economistlawyeruniversity teacherpolitician
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Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn, also known as DSK, is a French economist and politician who served as the tenth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and was a member of the French Socialist Party. He attained notoriety due to his involvement in several sex scandals. Strauss-Kahn was a professor of economics at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense and Sciences Po, and was Minister of Economy and Finance from 1997 to 1999, as part of Lionel Jospin's Plural Left government. He sought the nomination in the Socialist Party presidential primary of 2006, but was defeated by Ségolène Royal.
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Christiane Taubira
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- economistwriterpolitician
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Christiane Marie Taubira is a French politician who served as Minister of Justice of France in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean-Marc Ayrault and Manuel Valls under President François Hollande from 2012 until 2016. She was a member of the National Assembly of France for French Guiana from 1993 to 2012 and member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999.
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Nicolas Hulot
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- film directorjournalisttelevision producerphotographerpolitician
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Nicolas Jacques André Hulot is a French journalist and environmental activist. He is the founder and honorary president of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, an environmental group established in 1990.
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Yann Le Cun
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- 1983-1987 graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
- Occupations
- artificial intelligence researchercomputer scientistsoftware engineerprofessorelectrical engineer
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Yann André Le Cun is a French–American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and image compression. He is the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He served as Chief AI Scientist at Meta Platforms before leaving to work on his own startup company.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1995 graduated with doctorate in France in microbiology
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- immunologistscientistuniversity teacherbiochemistmicrobiologist
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Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. She has served as a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin since 2015. Three years later, she founded an independent research institute, the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens. In 2020, Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing" (through CRISPR). This was the first science Nobel Prize ever won by two women only.
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Ngô Bảo Châu
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1992 graduated with Bachelor of Science in computer science and mathematics
- Occupations
- mathematicianprofessor
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Ngô Bảo Châu is a Vietnamese-French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms (proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad). He is the first Vietnamese national to have received the Fields Medal.
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Sindika Dokolo
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- art collectorbusinessperson
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Sindika Dokolo was a Congolese businessman and art collector, married to Isabel dos Santos since 2002, the eldest daughter of José Eduardo dos Santos, then President of Angola. Dokolo owned one of the most important contemporary African art collections of more than 3,000 pieces. He died on 29 October 2020, in a free diving accident near Umm al-Hatab Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, at the age of 48.
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Mahamadou Issoufou
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- politician
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Mahamadou Issoufou is a Nigerien politician who served as the president of Niger from 7 April 2011 to 2 April 2021. Issoufou was the prime minister of Niger from 1993 to 1994, president of the National Assembly from 1995 to 1996, and a candidate in each presidential election from 1993 to 2016. He led the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya), a social democratic party, from its foundation in 1990 until his election as president in 2011. During the presidency of Mamadou Tandja (1999–2010), Issoufou was the main opposition leader.
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Anne Genetet
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- Studied in 1984-1994
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anne Genetet is a French medical doctor and politician of Renaissance (RE) who briefly served as the Minister of National Education in the Barnier government from September to December 2024. She represented the 11th constituency for French residents overseas in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2024.
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Maud Bregeon
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- Studied in 2009-2011
- Occupations
- ingénieurs et cadres techniques d'entrepriseengineerpolitician
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Maud Bregeon is a French politician of Renaissance, who has served as the spokeswoman of the Government in the Barnier government between September and December 2024 and again for the government of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu since 2025. She first became a deputy for Hauts-de-Seine's 13th constituency in the National Assembly in 2022.
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Patrick Pelloux
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1995 graduated with doctorate in France in medicine
- Occupations
- columnistemergency physician
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Patrick Pelloux is a French physician and activist. He is a specialist of emergency medical services.
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Serge Haroche
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1971 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- researcherphysicistscientistprofesseur des universités
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Serge Haroche is a French physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J. Wineland for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems", a study of the particle of light, the photon. This and his other works developed laser spectroscopy. Since 2001, Haroche is a professor at the Collège de France and holds the chair of quantum physics and in 2022 he had the Fermi Chair of Physics at University of Rome La Sapienza.
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Bernard Debré
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- Graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- physicianurologistuniversity teacherpolitician
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Bernard Debré was a French urologist at Hôpital Cochin and a member (deputy) of the National Assembly of France. He was one of the representatives of the city of Paris, and was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. He is a son of Anne-Marie Lemaresquier and politician Michel Debré, who was Prime Minister of France, and twin-brother of Jean-Louis Debré.
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Gérard Mourou
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1970 graduated with doctorate
- In 1973 graduated with Doctor of Science
- Occupations
- university teacherresearcherphysicist
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Gérard Albert Mourou is a French scientist and pioneer in the field of electrical engineering and lasers. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, along with Donna Strickland, for the invention of chirped pulse amplification, a technique later used to create ultrashort-pulse, very high-intensity (petawatt) laser pulses.
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Claude Bartolone
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- politician
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Claude Bartolone is a French politician who served as President of the National Assembly of France from 2012 to 2017.
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Anne L'Huillier
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1986 graduated with doctorate in France in physics
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
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Anne Geneviève L'Huillier is a French physicist. She is a professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden.
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Maïmouna Doucouré
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- Graduated with licence in biology
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriterfilm director
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Maïmouna Doucouré, is a French screenwriter and film director. She gained international recognition in 2015 with her short -film Maman(s).
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Alain Connes
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1971 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- mathematicianresearcherprofessoruniversity teacher
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Alain Connes is a French mathematician, known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. He was a professor at the Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982.
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Alain Pompidou
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1985 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- physicianbiologistuniversity teacherpolitician
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Alain Pompidou was a French scientist and politician. A professor of histology, embryology, and cytogenetics, he was the fourth president of the European Patent Office (EPO) from 1 July 2004, to 30 June 2007. He was the adopted son of Georges Pompidou, former President of France.
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Kit Armstrong
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- composerpianist
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Kit Armstrong is an American classical pianist, composer, organist, and former child prodigy of British-Taiwanese parentage.
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Wendelin Werner
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1993 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- professeur des universitésmathematician
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Wendelin Werner is a French mathematician working on random processes such as self-avoiding random walks, Brownian motion, Schramm–Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain he received the Fields Medal "for his contributions to the development of stochastic Loewner evolution, the geometry of two-dimensional Brownian motion, and conformal field theory". He is currently Rouse Ball professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
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Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
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- politicianchemist
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Dr. Bibi Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim GCSK (born 17 October 1959) is a Mauritian politician and biodiversity scientist who served as the sixth president of Mauritius from 2015 to 2018. In December 2014, she was selected to be the presidential candidate of the Alliance Lepep. After Kailash Purryag resigned on 29 May 2015, both Prime Minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth and Leader of the Opposition Paul Berenger positively welcomed her nomination, which was unanimously approved in a vote in the National Assembly.
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Essam Heggy
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- 1999-2002 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- astronomer
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Essam Heggy is an American and French space scientist of Egyptian descent.
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Didier Fassin
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1982 graduated with doctorate in France in medicine
- Occupations
- humanitarianuniversity teacheranthropologistsociologistphysician
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Didier Fassin is a French anthropologist and sociologist. He is a professor at the Collège de France on the chair “Moral Questions and Social Issues in Contemporary Societies” and the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and holds a Direction of Studies in Political and Moral Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was elected to the Academy of Europe in 2021 was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
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Pierre Bellanger
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1979 studied biology
- Occupations
- businesspersonessayist
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Pierre Christian Bellanger is a French businessman who is founder and CEO of radio station Skyrock, and founder of Skyrock.com (French-language social network).
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Lionel Naccache
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 2002 graduated with doctorate in France in neuroscience
- Occupations
- researcherProfesseur des universités – Praticien hospitalierneurologist
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Lionel Naccache is a French neurologist and specialist in cognitive neuroscience.
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Michel Talagrand
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1975 graduated with doctorate in France in mathematics
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Michel Pierre Talagrand is a French mathematician working in probability theory, functional analysis and mathematical physics. Doctor of Science since 1977, he has been, since 1985, directeur de recherches at CNRS and a member of the Functional Analysis Team of the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu in Paris. Talagrand was also a faculty member at The Ohio State University for more than fifteen years. Talagrand was elected as correspondent of the Académie des sciences of Paris in March 1997, and then as a full member in November 2004, in the Mathematics section. In 2024, Talagrand received the Abel Prize.
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Ghaleb Bencheikh Lehocine
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1990 graduated with doctorate in France in physics
- Occupations
- television presenterphysicistradio producerIslamicistradio personality
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Ghaleb Bencheikh is a Doctor of Science and physics.
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Cheick Modibo Diarra
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- astrophysicistastronomerministerpolitician
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Cheick Modibo Diarra is a Malian astrophysicist, businessman, and politician who was acting Prime Minister of Mali from April 2012 to December 2012.
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Nicole El Karoui
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1971 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- mathematician
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Nicole El Karoui is a French mathematician and pioneer in the development of mathematical finance, born 29 May 1944 in Paris. She is considered one of the pioneers on the French school of mathematical finance and trained many engineers and scientists in this field. She is Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics at Sorbonne University, and held professorship positions at the École Polytechnique and Université du Maine. Her research has contributed to the application of probability and stochastic differential equations to modeling and risk management in financial markets.
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Philippe Baptiste
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- Studied in 1995
- Occupations
- computer scientistresearcherengineer
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Philippe Baptiste is a French engineer, academic and researcher who has been serving as Minister responsible for Higher Education and Research in the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou since 2024, reporting to Minister Elizabeth Borne.
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Gilles Pisier
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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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.
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- 1995-1999 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- neuroscientist
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel is a Brazilian neuroscientist. Her main field of work is comparative neuroanatomy; her findings include a method of counting neurons in human and other animals' brains and the relation between the cerebral cortex area and the thickness and number of cortical folds.
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Eudald Carbonell
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- paleoanthropologist
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Eudald Carbonell i Roura is a Catalan archaeologist, anthropologist and paleontologist.
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Bernard Bigot
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1979 graduated with doctorate in France in chemistry
- Occupations
- officialchemistuniversity teachernuclear physicist
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Bernard Bigot was a French academic and civil servant. He served as the Director-General of the ITER organization between 2015 and 2022. He was the president of the École normale supérieure de Lyon and director of the French Commission for Atomic Energy.
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Maboula Soumahoro
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- scholar of Englishessayistuniversity teacherwomen's rights activist
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Maboula Soumahoro is a French scholar and Afro-feminist whose parents came to France from the Ivory Coast in the late 1960s. An associate professor in the English department of the University of Tours, she specializes in studies on Afro-American diaspora and has published a paper on Rastafari. A contributor to the French committee on the history of slavery (Comité national pour la mémoire et l'histoire de l'esclavage), Soumahoro launched the French version of Black History Month in 2011. In 2020, she published Le triangle et l’hexagone inspired by her own experiences as an anti-racist black French Muslim.
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Thibault Damour
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1979 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Thibault Damour is a French physicist.
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Nalini Anantharaman
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 2000 graduated with doctorate in France in mathematics
- Occupations
- university teacherresearchermathematician
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Nalini Anantharaman is a French mathematician known for her work in mathematical physics and analysis. She is currently a professor at the University of Strasbourg. She has won major prizes for her work, including the Henri Poincaré Prize in 2012.
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Fatoumata Kébé
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 2016 graduated with doctorate in France in astrophysics and astronomy
- Occupations
- astrophysicistastronomer
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Fatoumata Kébé is a French astrophysicist and educator. She specialises in space debris. She was named as one of Vanity Fair's Most Influential French People in the world in 2018.
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Jean-Jacques Hublin
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- university teacheranthropologistpaleoanthropologist
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Jean-Jacques Hublin is a French paleoanthropologist. He is a professor at the Max Planck Society, Leiden University and the University of Leipzig and the founder and director of the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He is best known for his work on the Pleistocene hominins, and on the Neandertals and early Homo sapiens, in particular.
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Laure Saint-Raymond
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Laure Saint-Raymond is a French mathematician, and a professor of mathematics at Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES). She was previously a professor at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. She is known for her work in partial differential equations, and in particular for her contributions to the mathematically rigorous study of the connections between interacting particle systems, the Boltzmann equation, and fluid mechanics. In 2008 she was awarded the European Mathematical Society Prize, with her citation reading:
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Laurent Lantieri
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- university teacherplastic surgeon
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Laurent Lantieri is a French plastic surgeon who is a pioneer in the field of face transplantation. He performed the first second and third full face transplants. He was the first person to do a second face transplant on the same patient in 2018.
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Basarab Nicolescu
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- 1969-1972 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- In 1972 graduated with doctorate in France in physics
- Occupations
- university teachercollection managerphysicisttheoretical physicistresearch fellow
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Basarab Nicolescu is an honorary theoretical physicist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. He is also a professor at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Docteur ès-Sciences Physiques (PhD), 1972, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. He was appointed Professor Extraordinary at Stellenbosch University, South Africa for the period 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2016 and was elected as Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) Fellow in 2011.
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Lalla Malika Issoufou
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- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Maurice Taieb
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- Graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- paleoanthropologistresearchergeologistpaleontologist
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Maurice Taieb was a Tunisian French geologist and paleoanthropologist. He discovered the Hadar formation, recognized its potential importance to paleoanthropology and founded the International Afar Research Expedition (IARE). This enabled co-director Donald Johanson to discover an early hominin fossil, the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecine Lucy in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
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Jean-Jacques Laffont
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- Graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Jean-Jacques Marcel Laffont was a French economist specializing in public economics and information economics. Educated at the University of Toulouse and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) in Paris, he was awarded PhD in economics by Harvard University in 1975.
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Gilles Bloch
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1989 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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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.
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Ivica Puljak
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 2000 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in physics
- Occupations
- research fellowpoliticianphysicist
- Biography
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Ivica Puljak is a Croatian politician, particle physicist and professor at University of Split's FESB division. He served as mayor of Split from 2021 to 2025 and is the president of the Centre political party.
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Jean Dalibard
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- Graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- researcherprofessorphysicist
- Biography
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Jean Dalibard is a French physicist, Professor at the École Polytechnique, member of the French Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the École Normale Supérieure. In 2009, Dalibard received the Blaise Pascal medal of the European Academy of Sciences for "his outstanding and influential works in atomic physics and quantum optics". In 2012, he received the Max Born Award and Davisson–Germer Prize. He was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2018. In 2020, he was honoured to be an international member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2021, he was awarded the CNRS Gold Medal.
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Zeresenay Alemseged
- Occupations
- paleoanthropologistarchaeologistanthropologistresearcherprehistorian
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Zeresenay "Zeray" Alemseged is a paleoanthropologist who is a faculty member at the University of Chicago. In 2013, he was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2021. In 2022, he was appointed to the Comité Scientifique International du Musée d'Anthropologie Préhistorique de Monaco and the Pontifical Academy of Science. Alemseged is best known for his discovery, on 10 December 2000, of Selam, also referred to as the "Dikika child" or "Lucy's child", the almost-complete fossilized remains of a 3.3 million-year-old child of the species Australopithecus afarensis. The "world's oldest child", she is the most complete skeleton of a human ancestor discovered to date. Selam represents a milestone in understanding of human and pre-human evolution and contributes significantly to understanding of the biology and childhood of early species in the human lineage; a subject about which we have very little information. Alemseged discovered Selam while working with the Dikika Research Project, a multi-national research project funded in part by the National Science Foundation, which he both initiated in 1999 and leads. The DRP has thus far made many important paleoanthropological discoveries and returns to the field each year to conduct further important research. Alemseged's specific research centers on the discovery and interpretation of hominin fossil remains and their environments, with emphasis on fieldwork designed to acquire new data on early hominin skeletal biology, environmental context, and behavior.
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Philippe Taquet
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1973 graduated with doctorate in France in natural science
- Occupations
- university teacherpaleontologistresearch fellow
- Biography
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Philippe Taquet was a French paleontologist who specialised in dinosaur systematics of finds primarily in northern Africa.
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Corinne Le Quéré
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 60)
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- Graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- physicistclimatologistmeteorologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Corinne Le Quéré CBE FRS is a Canadian scientist. She is Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science at the University of East Anglia and former Director of Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. She was the founding chair of the French High Council on Climate (2018-2024) and is a member of the UK Climate Change Committee since 2016. Her research focuses on the interactions between the carbon cycle and climate change.
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Jean-François Le Gall
- Occupations
- researchermathematicianprofesseur des universités
- Biography
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Jean-François Le Gall is a French mathematician working in areas of probability theory such as Brownian motion, Lévy processes, superprocesses and their connections with partial differential equations, the Brownian snake, random trees, branching processes, stochastic coalescence and random planar maps. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI) under the supervision of Marc Yor. He is currently professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay and is a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in December 2013.
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Taraneh Javanbakht
- Occupations
- photographerliterary criticplaywrightessayisttranslator
- Biography
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Taraneh Javanbakht is an Iranian-Canadian scientist and polymath.
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Jean-Pierre Demailly
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1982 graduated with doctorate in France in mathematics
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jean-Pierre Demailly was a French mathematician who worked in complex geometry. He was a professor at Université Grenoble Alpes and a permanent member of the French Academy of Sciences.
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Ahmad Motamedi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ahmad Motamedi is an Iranian politician & member of Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)'s Electrical Engineering faculty.
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Thomas Ebbesen
- Occupations
- researcherphysicistchemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Thomas Wren Ebbesen is a Franco-Norwegian physical chemist and professor at the University of Strasbourg in France, known for his pioneering work in nanoscience. He received the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience “for transformative contributions to the field of nano-optics that have broken long-held beliefs about the limitations of the resolution limits of optical microscopy and imaging”, together with Stefan Hell, and Sir John Pendry in 2014.
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Paul-Gilbert Langevin
- Occupations
- music criticteacherwritermusicologistphysical chemist
- Biography
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Paul-Gilbert Langevin was a French musicologist, who was a specialist on Anton Bruckner, Franz Schubert and 19th-century classical music.
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Marc Yor
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- Graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Marc Yor was a French mathematician well known for his work on stochastic processes, especially properties of semimartingales, Brownian motion and other Lévy processes, the Bessel processes, and their applications to mathematical finance.
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Catherine Vidal
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 75)
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1986 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- researcherneurobiologistcollection managerscience communicator
- Biography
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Catherine Vidal is a French neurobiologist, feminist and essayist. She is the author of popular science books in the field of cognitive differences between genders.
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Daniel Goldberg
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1994 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Goldberg is a French Socialist politician. He is a mathematics teacher and was elected deputy in 2007 to represent La Courneuve.
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Marylène Patou-Mathis
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1984 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- prehistorianzooarchaeologistpaleontologistscientistzoologist
- Biography
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Marylène Patou-Mathis, is a French prehistorian academic and a specialist in the behavior of the Neanderthals and the San people. She studies the place of women in these societies and has questioned the projections of other prehistorians on women's roles in ancient times.
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Catherine Dulac
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1991 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- university teachermolecular biologistneurobiologist
- Biography
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Catherine Dulac is a French–American molecular biologist and neuroscientist. She is a professor at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Harvard University and, since 2022, has been the current Samuel W. Morris University Professor. Prior to her appointment as University Professor, she was the Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences (from 2018) in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
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Django Sissoko
- Years
- 1948-2022 (aged 74)
- Occupations
- university teacherministerpolitician
- Biography
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Django Sissoko was a Malian civil servant who was Prime Minister of Mali from December 2012 to September 2013. He was Minister of Justice from 1984 to 1988 and subsequently served twice as Secretary-General of the Presidency, from 1988 to 1991 and from 2008 to 2011. He also served as Ombudsman from 2011 to 2012.
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Philippe Sansonetti
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1979 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- researchermicrobiologistprofessor
- Biography
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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.
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Karim Zaghib
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 2002 graduated with habilitation
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Karim Zaghib OC FRSC FCAE is an Algerian-Canadian electrochemist and materials scientist known for his contributions to the field of energy storage and conversion. He is currently Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Concordia University. As former director of research at Hydro-Québec, he helped to make it the world’s first company to use lithium iron phosphate in cathodes, and to develop natural graphite and nanotitanate anodes.
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Jean-Michel Coron
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1980 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jean-Michel Coron is a French mathematician. He first studied at École Polytechnique, where he worked on his PhD thesis advised by Haïm Brezis. Since 1992, he has studied the control theory of partial differential equations, and which includes both control and stabilization. His results concern partial differential equations related to fluid dynamics, with emphasis on nonlinear phenomena, and part of them found applications to control channels.
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Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- 1986-1995 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- Director of Research at CNRSresearcherneuroscientistpediatrician
- Biography
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Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz is a French paediatrician. She is the Professor and Director of the Developmental Neuroimaging Lab at CNRS. Her research uses non-invasive brain imaging to understand children's cognitive function. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
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Hervé Le Treut
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1985 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- climatologistmeteorologist
- Biography
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Hervé Le Treut, is a French climatologist specialized in climate numerical simulation. He is member of the French Academy of Sciences and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and was director of the Pierre-Simon-Laplace Institute (2008-2019).
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Yves Agid
- Occupations
- physicianresearcherProfesseur des universités – Praticien hospitalierneuroscientist
- Biography
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Yves Agid is a neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, cell biologist, neurochemist, academician, university professor, hospital doctor, researcher in biology and scientist specializing in neurosciences.
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Jean-Michel Bismut
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Jean-Michel Bismut is a French mathematician who has been a professor at the Université Paris-Sud since 1981. His mathematical career covers two apparently different branches of mathematics: probability theory and differential geometry. Ideas from probability play an important role in his works on geometry.
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Ahlem Belhadj
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- Graduated with DES
- Occupations
- university teacheractivistchild psychiatrist
- Biography
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Ahlem Belhadj was a Tunisian psychiatrist and women's rights campaigner. Serving at various times as president, chair, and director of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD), Belhadj campaigned for better treatment of women in Tunisia. She successfully fought for the right of women and children to apply for passports without permission of their husband or father. Belhadj led a march of thousands of women against President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali during the 2011 Tunisian Revolution. She was the 2012 winner of the Simone de Beauvoir Prize and placed 18th on Foreign Policy's 2012 list of global thinkers.
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Enrique Zuazua
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- Graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Enrique Zuazua is the Head of the Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics - FAU DCN-AvH (Alexander von Humboldt Professorship) at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (FAU). He is also Distinguished Research Professor and the Director of the Chair of Computational Mathematics of DeustoTech Research Center of the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain and Professor of Applied Mathematics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).
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Nicolas Michelin
- Occupations
- urban plannerarchitect
- Biography
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Nicolas Michelin is a French architect and urban planner. After joining forces with Finn Geipel to form LABFAC in 1988, he founded Agence Nicolas Michelin & Associés (ANMA) in 2000, which he currently runs in collaboration with his partners Michel Delplace and Cyril Trétout. He also has a firm dedicated to experimental projects called Studio Maé.
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Isabelle Gallagher
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- Graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- mathematicianresearcherresearch fellowprofesseur des universités
- Biography
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Isabelle Gallagher is a French mathematician. Her research concerns partial differential equations such as the Navier–Stokes equations, the wave equation, and the Schrödinger equation, as well as harmonic analysis of the Heisenberg group.
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Denis Jachiet
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1987 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- Catholic deaconCatholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Denis Jachiet is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who has been bishop of Belfort-Montbéliard since 2021. He served as an auxiliary bishop of Paris from 2016 to 2021.
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Michel Sadelain
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1984 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- researcherimmunologist
- Biography
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Michel W. Sadelain is a genetic engineer and cell therapist at Columbia University New York, New York. He is the Director of the Columbia Initiative in Cell Engineering and Therapy (CICET). Sadelain also serves as the Director of Columbia University Irving Medical Center's Cancer Cell Therapy Initiative in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. Sadelain was previously the Steve and Barbara Friedman Chair, founding director of the Center for Cell Engineering, and the head of the Gene Transfer and Gene Expression Laboratory at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is best known for his major contributions to T cell engineering and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy, an immunotherapy based on the genetic engineering of a patient's own T cells to treat cancer. Sadelain also pioneered the use of lentiviral vectors to treat severe hemoglobinopathies such as β-thalassemia and sickle cell disease. Sadelain is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine of France and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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François Bouchet
- Occupations
- astrophysicist
- Biography
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François R. Bouchet is a French astronomer specializing in physical cosmology, including formation of large scale structures and cosmic background radiation. He serves as the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris liaison for the Planck Mission Project.
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Laurent Nottale
- Occupations
- astrophysicisttheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Laurent Nottale is an astrophysicist, a retired director of research at CNRS, and a researcher at the Paris Observatory. He is the author and inventor of the theory of scale relativity, which aims to unify quantum physics and relativity theory.
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Antonio Galves
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- 1973-1974 graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
- Occupations
- mathematicianphysicistneuroscientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jefferson Antonio Galves was a Brazilian mathematician, professor of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo (USP) and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. His field of studies was related to statistical models, in particular models that have stochasticity and variable range of memory. Galves was also the leader of NeuroMat, a research center established in 2013 at USP that is dedicated to integrating mathematical modeling and theoretical neuroscience.
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André Choulika
- Occupations
- businesspersonvirologist
- Biography
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André Choulika is a biotechnologist, the inventor of nuclease-based genome editing and a pioneer in the analysis and use of meganucleases to modify complex genomes.
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Mohamed Amine Sbihi
- Occupations
- mathematicianpolitician
- Biography
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Mohamed Amine Sbihi is a Moroccan politician of the Party of Progress and Socialism. Between 3 January 2012 and 6 April 2017, he held the position of Minister of Culture in Abdelilah Benkirane's government. He was succeeded by Mohamed Laaraj. He was professor of Statistics and Mathematics at the Mohammed V University of Rabat and al-Akhawayn University of Ifrane.
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André Paul
- Occupations
- editing staffpublisherhistorianbiblical scholaruniversity teacher
- Biography
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André Paul is a noted French scholar, educator and writer in the fields of theology, biblical studies and ancient Judaism. Paul's early research explored the relationship between the Dead Sea Scrolls and Karaite Judaism.
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François Pachet
- Occupations
- artificial intelligence researchercomposeruniversity teacherdirecteur de recherchecivil engineer
- Biography
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François Pachet is a French scientist, composer and director of the Spotify Creator Technology Research Lab. Before joining Spotify he led Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. He is one of the pioneers of computer music closely linked to artificial intelligence, especially in the field of machine improvisation and style modelling. He has been elected ECCAI Fellow in 2014.
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Christine Petit
- Occupations
- researchergeneticistbiologistprofessor
- Biography
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Christine Petit is a French geneticist. She holds professorships at the Collège de France and the Pasteur Institute.
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Claudine Hermann
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1976 graduated with doctorate in France in physics
- Occupations
- university teacherdocentphysicist
- Biography
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Claudine Hermann was a French physicist and Honorary Professor at École Polytechnique, the well-known grande école founded in 1794 and located in Palaiseau, France. In 1992 she became their first woman Professor. She was also the Vice President of the European Platform of Women Scientists. She founded an organisation, Femmes et sciences, who have proposed 72 names to be added to the sides of the Eiffel Tower, including Hermann.
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Julia Kempe
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- computer scientistresearcherphysicistmathematician
- Biography
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Julia Kempe is a French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing. She is currently the Director of the New York University Center for Data Science and Professor at the Courant Institute.
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Marc Fontecave
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1981 graduated with doctorate in France
- In 1984 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- university teacherbioinorganic chemistresearcherprofessorchemist
- Biography
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Marc Fontecave is a French chemist. An international specialist in bioinorganic chemistry, he currently teaches at the Collège de France in Paris, where he heads the Laboratory of Chemistry of Biological Processes.
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Solange Ghernaouti
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1986 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- IT security expertdirecteur de rechercheuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Solange Ghernaouti is a professor at the University of Lausanne and an international expert on cybersecurity and cyberdefence. She regularly collaborates with various United Nations, European and government institutions as well as with private corporations.
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Sophien Kamoun
- Occupations
- geneticistbiologist
- Biography
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Sophien Kamoun is a Tunisian biologist. He is a senior scientist at The Sainsbury Laboratory and professor of biology at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Kamoun is known for contributions to our understanding of plant diseases and plant immunity. As of 2025, Kamoun became a co-editor of the Annual Review of Phytopathology.
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Eric Rignot
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1986 graduated with Master of Science in astronomy
- Occupations
- glaciologistearth scientist
- Biography
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Eric J. Rignot is the Donald Bren, Distinguished and Chancellor Professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, and a Senior Research Scientist for the Radar Science and Engineering Section at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He studies the interaction of the polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica with global climate using a combination of satellite remote sensing, airborne remote sensing (depth sounding radar, gravity), understanding of physical processes controlling glacier flow and ice melt in the ocean, field methods (multibeam echo sounding, CTD, AWS), and climate modeling (ISSM, MITgcm). He was elected at the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.
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Daniel Choquet
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- Graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- neuroscientistresearcher
- Biography
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Daniel Choquet is a French neuroscientist.
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Athina Coustenis
- Occupations
- astrophysicist
- Biography
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Athena Coustenis is an astrophysicist specializing in planetology. Coustenis, a French national, is director of research, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, at LESIA (Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique), at the Paris Observatory, Meudon. She is involved in several space mission projects for the European Space Agency (ESA) and for NASA. Her focus is on gas giant planets Saturn, Jupiter and their moons, and she is considered a foremost expert on Saturn's moon Titan.
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Maria J. Esteban
- Enrolled in Pierre and Marie Curie University
- In 1987 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Maria J. Esteban is a Spanish mathematician. In her research she studies nonlinear partial differential equations, mainly by the use of variational methods, with applications to physics and quantum chemistry. She has also worked on fluid-structure interaction.
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Diane Mazloum
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Diane Mazloum is a French-Lebanese writer. Her novels are set against the history or present in Lebanon.
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Yoelle Maarek
- Occupations
- computer scientistresearcher
- Biography
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Yoelle Maarek is a Tunisian-born Israeli computer scientist. She is the Chief Researcher of AI/IR for the Technology Innovation Institute. Maarek is a researcher in the field of AI and information retrieval. She is a former Vice President of Science and Research at Amazon, responsible for Amazon's Alexa Shopping Research and a former Vice President of Research, at Yahoo! Labs, where she led several labs and the area of Mail Search among others. Maarek was a Director of Engineering at Google and the first engineering hire of Google Israel, where she established the company's development center in Haifa in 2006. At Google, her team launched in 2008 Google Suggest (now Google query autocomplete) worldwide on Google homepage as well as in Youtube soon after. She is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, a member of US National Academy of Engineering and of the SIGIR Academy.
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Yves André
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Yves André is a French mathematician, specializing in arithmetic geometry.
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Gérard Férey
- Occupations
- researcherchemist
- Biography
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Gérard Férey was a French chemist who was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a professor at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. He specialized in the physical chemistry of solids and materials. He focused on the crystal chemistry of inorganic fluorides and on porous solids.
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Alain Mamou-Mani
- Occupations
- writerfilm producer
- Biography
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Alain Mamou-Mani is a French film producer and writer.
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Marie-Laure Phinéra-Horth
- Occupations
- politicianliberal profession
- Biography
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Marie-Laure Phinéra-Horth is a French politician, who was the first woman from French Guiana to be appointed to the French Senate in 2020. Prior to her role as a senator, she was mayor of Cayenne from 2010.
