Born Sept. 1942 in Cairo (Egypt), French citizen.

Ecole Normale Supérieure, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique

24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France.

Tel: (33)-1- 44 32 33 18 (Ecole Normale Supérieure) or

1-46 61 19 45 (Home).

Fax: (33) - 1 - 44 32 34 33

Education

- Ecole Polytechnique (engineer, 1963)

- M.S. (licence ès sciences) in biology, University of Paris 1964

- Thesis (Doctorat d'Etat), Université Paris 7, 1971

- Centre de Génétique Physiologique or Centre de Génétique Moléculaire (Gif sur Yvette)

Sept. 1964 - Sept. 1971

- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire or Institut Jacques Monod (Paris)

Oct. 1971 - Sept. 1972 and April 1974 - December 1991

- Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, U.S.A.)

Oct. 1972 - March 1974

- Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)

Jan. 1992 -

- Emeritus director of research of the CNRS.

Member of the "Laboratoire de Physique Statistique", Ecole Normale Supérieure.

- Head of the Group of "Biochemical Evolution" 1979 - 1991.

- Head of the Microbiology Department at Institut Jacques Monod (1985-1986)

- Elected member of EMBO (1980) and organizer of two international workshops on "Accuracy in Molecular recognition" (Grignon, 1978) and on "Pattern analysis in nucleic acid and protein sequences" (Saint-Agnan, 1981). Also co-organizer of the Colloquium for the 20th anniversary of Institut Jacques Monod (November 1989).