Olivier Gascuel (born 1956) is a French researcher in bioinformatics. He is a research director at the CNRS. His work focuses in particular on phylogeny. He was the director of the Centre for Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Integrative Biology[1] at the Pasteur Institute from 2015 till 2020. In 2021, he joined the Institute of Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity (ISYEB)[2] at the National Museum of Natural History, France.
Biography edit
In 1975,[3] Olivier Gascuel joined the École normale supérieure de Cachan,[4] where he studied mathematics and then specialized in computer science. In parallel, he studied architecture.
In 1981, he defended a doctoral thesis on expert systems for medical diagnosis,[5] then joined the CNRS as a research fellow.
He joined the Montpellier Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics (LIRMM) in 1987,[4] and since then has focused his research on phylogeny. More recently, he has oriented part of his activities towards pathogens.[1]
In 2000, together with Marie-France Sagot, he initiated the annual JOBIM conference, the "Journées Ouvertes en Biologie, Informatique et Mathématiques" (Open Days in Biology, Informatics and Mathematics), now organized by the French Society of Bioinformatics (SFBI).[6]
Awards edit
- In 2009, Olivier Gascuel was awarded the CNRS silver medal.[3]
- In 2017, he is the winner of the Grand Prix Inria - Académie des sciences.[7]
- Member of the French Academy of sciences in the integrative biology section,[8] since 2019.[9]
Books edit
- Sylvie Thiria, Olivier Gascuel and Yves Lechevallier, Statistique et méthodes neuronales, Éditions Dunod, 1997, 311 p. (ISBN 9782100035441).
- (en) Olivier Gascuel, Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny, Oxford University Press, 2005, 416 p. (ISBN 9780198566106).
References edit
- ^ a b Page personnelle de Olivier Gascuel sur le site de l’Institut Pasteur
- ^ Olivier Gascuel - MNHN
- ^ a b "" Talents " Médaille d'argent du CNRS, palmarès 2009" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-17. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- ^ a b Institut Pasteur: Olivier Gascuel, grand prix INRIA - Académie des sciences
- ^ BioinfoFR: Questions à ... Olivier Gascuel, entretien réalisé en 2013
- ^ "JOBIM | Société Française de BioInformatique". www.sfbi.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2017-11-24..
- ^ Maryse Gros (2017-11-08). "Le chercheur Olivier Gascuel reçoit le Grand Prix de l'Inria". Le Monde Informatique. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
- ^ Olivier Gascuel - Académie des sciences
- ^ « Dix-huit nouveaux membres élus à l’Académie des sciences »