Summary
Pascal Hersen is a CNRS researcher and director of the Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Curie at Institut Curie, leading a multidisciplinary program at the intersection of physics, biology, design and computer science. Trained as a physicist at ENS Paris and Lyon and in biology at Harvard, he brings a rare cross-disciplinary perspective to studying the physics of living systems. His team develops and applies microscopy, microfluidics, synthetic biology and AI to explore living matter, and he is a pioneer in Cybergenetics—the real-time control of genetic properties in single cells. Since 2015 he has held CNRS leadership roles as Directeur de Recherche and Principal Investigator, and since 2019 he has led Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Curie, championing Open Science and the interface between science, society and technology. Based in Paris, his career spans international academia and renowned institutions, reflecting a track record of building research programs that bridge theory, experimentation and translational impact.
11 years of coding experience