Ten new professors will be inaugurating their professorships (statutory or annual) in the 2023-2024 academic year.
Discover them below, listed chronologically, according to the date of their opening lecture.
Laurent Coulon is an Egyptologist specializing in ancient Egyptian religion, particularly the cult of Osiris. His research also focuses on Egyptian eloquence and rhetoric, and more generally on the context of court society in which they were deployed.
He is Professor of The Civilization of Pharaonic Egypt.
Benoît Sagot 's current research interests include language models, machine translation, language resource development and computational linguistics, with a particular focus on French in all its variety and on less endowed languages.
He is a visiting professor at the annual Computer Sciences and Digital Sciences Chair, created in partnership with Inria.
Emmanuelle Porcher is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist. She is interested in the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of plants and their conservation.
She is a visiting professor at the annual Biodiversity and Ecosystems Chair, supported by the Jean-François and Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Foundation.
Alessandro Morbidelli is a planetologist. His research focuses on the formation and evolution of planetary systems, with a particular interest in the history of the solar system.
He is Professor of Planetary Formation: from Earth to Exoplanets.
Kyle Harper is a historian whose work seeks to integrate the natural sciences with the study of the human past. His main research interests include the history of infectious diseases and climate change and their impact on human societies.
He is visiting professor on the annual Avenir Commun Durable chair, which is supported by the Fondation du Collège de France and its major sponsors Covéa and TotalEnergies.
Stéphanie Lacour studies neurotechnology, an interdisciplinary field that integrates various methods and approaches to explore the mechanisms of the nervous system, diagnose, treat and alleviate neurological disorders, and consider brain-machine interfaces.
She is a visiting professor on the annual Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Chair, which is supported by the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation.
Louis Fensterbank 's research focuses on the discovery of new molecular transformations involving radical or organometallic processes, and their combination by photocatalysis.
He holds the Activations in Molecular Chemistry Chair.
Antoine Jouxspecializes in cryptography. Much of his work focuses on cryptanalysis, i.e. the study of vulnerabilities in cryptographic systems.
He is a visiting professor at the annual Computer Sciences and Digital Sciences Chair, created in partnership with Inria.
Salikok S. Mufwene 's research focuses on linguistic evolution, in particular the emergence of Creole languages and other forms of indigenization of European colonial languages, as well as language vitality.
He is a visiting professor at the annual Francophone Worlds Chair, created in partnership with the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie.
Peter Sloterdijk is a German philosopher and essayist.
He is visiting professor at the annual The Invention of Europe through languages and cultures chair, created in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture.
