Gilles Bernot

December 2019

Gilles Bernot, 60 years old, is exceptional class full professor in computer science at the École Polytechnique Universitaire of the Université Côte d'Azur, France, since 2007. He was previously full professor at Genopole®-Evry from 1992 to 2007 and assistant professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieur of Paris (ENS Ulm) from 1987 to 1992. Ph.D. at the university of Orsay in 1986 and Habilitation in 1992. His research area since 1999 is the formal modelling of biological complex systems in the context of genomics. Gilles Bernot has been founder and head of the research team in formal methods for software engineering at the computer science laboratory of Evry from 1993 to 1999, director of the computer science laboratory of Evry-Genopole® from 1998 to 2004 (UMR CNRS), founder and head of the research team in bioinformatics from 2000 to 2005, founding codirector of the Epigenomics Project of Genopole® from 2003 to 2007 (deputy director since 2007), Vice-President of the National Council of Universities (CNU) in computer science from 2003 to 2007 (approx. 3000 teaching-researchers), Scientific Delegate at the French Agency for the Evaluation of Research (AERES, Life Sciences Dpt) from 2007 to 2009, founder and head of the research axis in bioinformatics of the I3S laboratory at Sophia Antipolis from 2007 to 2012, deputy director of the MDSC pole from 2007 to 2017, director of the IT doctoral school of Nice from 2009 to 2017, director of the Scientific and Pedagogical Council, DS4H graduate school since 2018. Gilles Bernot has supervised about 20 PhD theses and he is coauthor of approximately 150 publications, among them about 100 in bioinformatics.