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Born in
1959, France
Married,
one child
Education
- Research
Director Agreement, "informatics" specialty, Institut
National Polytechnique de Grenoble, June 1993
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PhD
Thesis, "informatics" specialty,
Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, March 1986
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Master
Thesis, "informatics specialty ", Institut National Polytechnique de
Grenoble, 1982
Positions and functions
- CNRS
Emeritus Research Director from March 2024
- CNRS
Research Director from October 98 to February 2024; CNRS researcher from 1988
to 1998
- Teaching
for many years in Masters or Engineering schools.
- Assistant
professor, Grenoble Alpes University (ex. Grenoble
Scientific and
- CNRS
PhD grant from 1982 to 1984 ( "Advanced control
and robotics" Program).
- Responsible
for the CAMI (Computer Aided Medical Interventions) team from September 1996 to
September 2013.
- Deputy
director of TIMC lab from 2006 to end of 2015.
Research laboratories
- Research
activity from 1990 in the domain of medical robotics and imaging. TIMC
Laboratory. Grenoble-Alpes University. Grenoble. Close collaborations with
clinicians.
- Short
post-doctoral stay, summer 1987. Robotics Lab. Computer Science Dept. Stanford
University, California
- Research
activity from 1982 to 1990 in the domain of geometric reasoning for robots.
LIFIA Laboratory (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory),
Grenoble. PhD Thesis supervised by Jean-Claude LATOMBE and Christian LAUGIER.
Misc.
- Member
of the French Academy of Sciences (elected in 2022)
- Enduring
Impact Award (2022) from MICCAI “for [my] pioneering contributions to Medical
Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery and [my] major role in the formation and
emergence of the MICCAI meeting and Society”
- IEEE
Fellow (2018) “for contributions to robotics and imaging for medical
applications”
- “Legion d’honneur”
decoration 2016
- CNRS
Silver Medal 2015 (INS2I Institute)
- Member
of the “French Academy of Surgery” from 2014
- “French
academy of surgery” 2013 award in recognition of contributions to the progress
of surgical techniques
- MICCAI
Fellow (2010) “for scientific contributions to computer-aided
surgery and medical robotics and for promotion of the field through involvement
in the MICCAI Society and related professional societies”
- CHRT
contract from INSERM with the urology department of Grenoble University
Hospital from October 2010 to end of September 2013.