Jacques Demongeot

Jacques Demongeot

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine; University Grenoble Alpes

Jacques Demongeot has worked as professor of medical informatics at the University Grenoble Alpes since 1970. As expert in theoretical biology, he proposed the new concept of primitive RNA rings as primitive structures at early life steps.

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Jacques Demongeot received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University Joseph Fourier (UJF) of Grenoble in 1976 and M.D. from UJF in 1978. He was appointed as Professor in UJF (Faculty of Medicine) in 1984 (Emeritus since 2015) and as Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 1994 (Honorary since 2005). He did a post-doc at the Mathematical Biology Laboratory of Oxford (J.D. Murray) and at IHES (R. Thom) in 1983-1984. He created the laboratory CNRS TIMC-IMAG in 1987 and was its director until 2011. He founded the Medical Informatics Service and Public Health Pole at University Hospital of Grenoble in 1985 and directed it until 2012. He has published over 300 scientific papers in medical informatics, biostatistics, bioinformatics and theoretical biology.

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"They forge countless fictions and, when they interpret Nature, discover everywhere the miracle, as if it were delirious with them"

(Baruch Spinoza, Theological-political Treatise, 1670, 250 y ago)

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