Professor Qualification (eligibility to senior faculty positions)
National Council of Universities (CNU), France, 1/2011-12/2020

• Level: Professor (PR)
• Section: #27, Computer Science ("Informatique")
• Ref. Numbers: #11127199531, #16127199531

Habilitation (ability to be a principal PhD supervisor)
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France, 4/2010

• Title: From the Simulation of Complex Biological Systems to the Design of Artificial Morphogenetic Systems, and Back. MEMOIR
• Fields: complex systems in artificial life (biological modeling / bio-inspired engineering) and spiking neural dynamics
• Jury: Wolfgang Banzhaf (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Yves Frégnac (UNIC, CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette), Jean-Louis Giavitto (IBISC, CNRS / Université d'Evry), Guillaume Beslon (LIRIS, INSA Lyon / IXXI), Yves Burnod (Inserm), Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (LIP6, UPMC Paris 6), Jean Petitot (CREA, Ecole Polytechnique / EHESS)

PhD in applied mathematics / computational physics
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France, 5/1991 (aged 25)

• Title: A Contribution to the Study of Representations in the Nervous System and in Artificial Neural Networks (dissertation in French) HTML
• Fields: computational neuroscience, neural networks, machine learning, computer vision, biological modeling, cognitive science
• Advisor: Elie Bienenstock, CNRS (today Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island)

MSc in theoretical physics
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, 9/1987

Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) and Ecole Polytechnique are the two most selective French "Grandes Ecoles" (see next).

Lead graduate candidate
French "Grandes Ecoles" (graduate schools), Paris, France, 7/1985 (aged 19)

Attained single-digit ranks at several competitive entrance examinations to the best science & engineering graduate schools:

• Ranked 1st of 2,818 candidates at the Ecole Centrale Paris league examination
  (group of four schools, including Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité and Ecole Supérieure d'Optique)
• Ranked 5th of 2,239 candidates at the Ecole des Mines de Paris league examination
  (group of eight schools, including Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Institut Supérieur de
  l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris)
• Ranked 9th of 222 candidates (physics section) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris
• Ranked 7th at the written examination (physics section) of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de St-Cloud

Born 1966.