Marie-Christine Rousset

Marie-Christine Rousset (born 1958) is a French computer scientist whose research involves knowledge representation, the semantic web, description logic, and data mining. She is a professor of computer science at Grenoble Alpes University, and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

Education and career Rousset graduated in 1980 from the École normale supérieure in Fontenay-aux-Roses (then a girls' school), with an agrégation in mathematics. She studied computer science at Paris-Sud University, earning a doctorat de troisième cycle in 1983 and a doctorat d'état in 1988 under the direction of Marie-Odile Cordier.

She was a researcher at the Laboratory for Computer Science (LIR) at Paris-Sud University from 1981 to 1989, and a professor there from 1989 to 2005. In 2005 she moved to Joseph Fourier University, which in 2016 merged with two other institutions in Grenoble to become Grenoble Alpes University.

Book Rousset is a coauthor of the book Web Data Management (with Serge Abiteboul, Ioana Manolescu, Philippe Rigaux, and Pierre Senellart, Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Recognition Rousset was elected as a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 1997, promoted to senior member in 2011, and renewed in 2016. She is a fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (formerly the ECCAI), elected in 2005.

She was named as a knight in the Ordre national du Mérite in 2011.