Olivier Gascuel

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 at the Pasteur Institute from 2015 till 2020. In 2021, he joined the Institute of Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity (ISYEB) at the National Museum of Natural History, France.

Biography In 1975, Olivier Gascuel joined the École normale supérieure de Cachan, 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, then joined the CNRS as a research fellow.

He joined the Montpellier Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics (LIRMM) in 1987,

Awards

In 2009, Olivier Gascuel was awarded the CNRS silver medal. Member of the French Academy of sciences in the integrative biology section, since 2019.

Books

Sylvie Thiria, Olivier Gascuel and Yves Lechevallier, Statistique et méthodes neuronales, Éditions Dunod, 1997, 311 p. . (en) Olivier Gascuel, Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny, Oxford University Press, 2005, 416 p. .