AIV Teachers

	Ariel Lindner : INSERM tenured senior researcher and co-director of the AIV master, has graduated from the Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel) "Amirim" interdisciplinary program with major in Chemistry and received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel) in Chemical Immunology for his work on catalytic antibodies as enzyme models, antibody conformational changes and directed evolution. After a research period at the Scripps Institute (California, USA), he received EMBO and Marie Curie fellowships to pursue postdoctoral work in Paris. His study interestevolve around applying Physical, Chemical and Biological approaches to study variability between clonal individuals. he si an associate professor at the Paris Descartes university faculty of Medicine (2008/9) and serves as the director of studies of the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI).
	Pascal Hersen CNRS tenured researcher and co-director of the AIV master, has a degree from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and a PhD in Physics from University of Paris VII. His research path starts with the study of sand dunes dynamics and morphogenesis. He got interested into interdisciplinary approaches and its application to Life Science during a post doctoral stay at Harvard University, where he studied the dynamics of a model signalling pathway in yeast. He is currently a CNRS researcher at the Materials and Complex Systems Laboratory hosted by University Paris VII where he studies how biological systems can dynamically adapt to fluctuations of their environment, using both experiments and models. He is involved in organization and teaching for the Master AIV.
	Stephane Douady, CNRS Director of Research, has graduated from the Ecole Normale superieure and received his master and PhD degrees in Physics from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI). He is now a CNRS researcher at ENS and Paris Diderot (Paris VII) University. He received the CNRS silver medal for his works, focused on numerous natural phenomena as phyllotaxis, instability and avalanches in granular media, singing dunes, venation, leaf unfolding… treated with both modeling and experimental approaches.
	Francois Taddei, Director of Research at INSERM, was first trained in mathematics and physics and then followed the interdisciplinary curriculum of the French Ecole Polytechnique. He received an engineering master (ENGREF) as well as master and PhD degrees in Genetics (Paris XI University). His scientific work was recognised by awards from INSERM, Bettencourt foundation, EURYI and HFSP for its interdisciplinary approaches to bacterial genetic and phenotypic variability, its molecular causes and its medical and evolutionary consequences. He currently leads an INSERM team in Paris and serves as the director of the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI) and the FdV PhD program.
	David Tareste : INSERM tenured researcher, has a Bachelor of Science in Fundamental Physics and a Master Degree in Physico-Chemistry from Orsay University. He did his PhD at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris) on Adhesion Physics and his Postdoc at Columbia University (New York) on Cellular Biophysics, and more specifically the biophysics of neurotransmitter release. He is currently working at the Institut Jacques Monod (Paris) on the biophysical mechanisms of intracellular membrane fusion using in vitro reconstitution strategies and various quantitative experimental approaches (e.g. fluorescence spectroscopy, optical imaging, micromanipulation, force measurements).

Claire Ribault : "After preparatory classes in physics & chemistry, I studied chemistry at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Ulm). I spent 7 months working on prion protein biosynthesis in King's College London. Then I followed the AIV master program "Approches Interdisciplinaires du Vivant". I am now doing a PhD, working on the synapse as a multimolecular assembly in a "dynamic equilibrium".

Many other researchers are associated with the Master's teaching program: François Amblard, Timo Betz, Samuel Bottani, Jean-Christophe Thalabard, Emmanuel Farge, Khashayar Pakdaman, Gregory Batt, Vincent Danos, Matthieu Piel, Richard-Emmanuel Eastes, Matteo Merzagora.