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Marc Fleurbaey
Sustainable Common Future
Marc Fleurbaey
Sustainable Common Future
2026 - today
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New Indicators for a New Society – Marc Fleurbaey The Avenir Commun Durable Annual Chair is supported by the Collège de France Foundation and its major sponsor, the Covéa …
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The Language of Europe? – Barbara Cassin One of the most fruitful challenges posed by Europe is that of languages: we can choose a dominant language—the “Globish” of a globalized Anglo-American world—or strive to preserve plurality by highlighting the …
Olivier Borraz
Public Health
Olivier Borraz
Public Health
2026 - today
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The Age of Uncertainty: Risks and Crises in the Organocene – Olivier Borraz This course will analyze how our societies cope with uncertainty. It will begin by describing the deployment of risk management tools, designed to bring within the realm of …
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Established in 2026, the chair is dedicated to the study of the figurative arts—painting, sculpture, as well as visual or plastic art forms considered minor—within the context of the various cultures that shaped Europe, both within and beyond its …
Tâm Mignot
Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Tâm Mignot
Biodiversity and Ecosystems
2026 - today
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New Microbiology: From Molecules to Ecosystems – Tâm Mignot Metagenomics has profoundly changed our understanding of biodiversity, the evolutionary relationships between organisms, and their extraordinary adaptive capabilities. In particular, the …
Claire Denis
Movies
Claire Denis
Movies
2026 - today
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The annual Cinema Chair, created in partnership with the National Center for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC), encourages reflection, research, and intellectual debate on contemporary issues in cinema. Its main objective is to highlight the practices, …
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Data Management: Expressiveness and Performance – Ioana Manolescu Digital data constitutes a “second world”—that is, a representation, shaped by modeling choices, of a wide range of human activities, such as economics, communications, healthcare, and …
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Modeling Epidemics: Data, Methods, and Public Health Issues – Simon Cauchemez In this lecture series, I will demonstrate how mathematical modeling tools are used to study the spread of infectious diseases in human populations. I will detail the impact on …
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The chair’s research focuses on mathematical models in fluid mechanics, and more specifically on geophysical fluids, which are characterized by the involvement of multiple time and spatial scales and by high anisotropy. This anisotropy—which in this …
Lydéric Bocquet
Fluids and Energy
Lydéric Bocquet
Fluids and Energy
2026 - today
Chair
A pebble bouncing a few times on a lake. A sandcastle. The splash of a stone falling into the water. The wake left by a boat. Waxing skis. But also… the “whispers” of microparticles. A trickle of water flowing through a carbon straw just a few nanometers …
Jacques Monod
Molecular Biology
Jacques Monod
Molecular Biology
1967 - 1973
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Most of Jacques Monod’s work was carried out at the Pasteur Institute. In 1949, he published in the journal Annual Review of Microbiology what is now known as the Monod equation , a model for predicting bacterial growth. In 1953, he challenged the initial …
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Amanda Hirschi is a research group leader at the MPIM in Bonn, where she works in symplectic topology. Her main areas of interest are the foundations of pseudo-holomorphic curves and their applications, ranging from enumerative geometry to applications in …
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Aurèle Méthivier is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Paris-VIII University, a member of the Research Group on Foucauldian Archives (GRAF, Paris-VIII University), and a research assistant in the “Moral Questions and Political Issues in Contemporary …
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Mahmoud Al-Shaer is a visiting researcher and fellow under the PAUSE Program at the Collège de France, affiliated with Professor Didier Fassin’s chair ( Moral Questions and Political Issues in Contemporary Societies ). He is a writer, editor, curator, and …
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Timothée Brunet-Lefèvre holds a Ph.D. in political studies from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). Since the start of the 2026 academic year, he has held the position of research fellow affiliated with Patrick Boucheron’s chair in …
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Edwige Cyffers develops mathematical tools and safeguards to ensure that machine learning is trustworthy and to help end users make informed decisions about their participation. Her primary area of interest is privacy: she uses differential privacy to …
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Dr. Kriegstein received a B.S. from Yale University (1971) and an M.D. and Ph.D. from New York University (1977). He completed his neurology residency at Brigham and Women’s, Children’s, and Beth Israel Hospitals in Boston and is a board-certified …
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Sigolène Meilhac is a research director at Inserm and has led the “Heart Morphogenesis” team at the Pasteur Institute and the Imagine Institute (Paris) since 2015. She studies how the heart develops in the embryo and how this process goes awry in …
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Céline Borde is a postdoctoral researcher in microbiology at the Interdisciplinary Research Center in Biology (CIRB), where she studies how bacteria adapt to their environment. During her Ph.D. studies in Lyon under the supervision of Agnès Rodrigue, she …
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The son of a painter and an American musician, Jacques Monod (1910–1976) earned his bachelor’s degree in 1931 and, after teaching at the university, received his doctorate in natural sciences in 1941. In the meantime, he accompanied Jean-Baptiste Charcot …
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Carlos Spoerhase is a literary theorist and professor of German literature at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). He studied German literature, as well as philosophy and political theory. After completing his doctoral studies at Humboldt …
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Giada Di Giuseppe studied classical literature and philology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” Her Master’s thesis, which focused on the correspondence between Libanius and Basil of Caesarea, was awarded the Pierre-Louis Malosse Prize. In 2023, she …
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Grégoire Brière is a doctoral candidate in international law in a joint program between Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). He is writing a dissertation titled “The Agreement of the Parties in Proceedings …
