Marcelle Kaufman - Curriculum Vitae#

Born: 1945, in Chur, Switzerland
Nationality: Belgian

Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium
Professeur de l’Université, Université libre de Bruxelles

Educational background:

• Licence en Chimie (1968) and PhD in Sciences (1973), Université libre de Bruxelles
  
• Agrégée de l’Enseignement Supérieur (Belgian National Science Foundation), 1996
  

Research activities:

• Director of the Research Unit of Theoretical and Computational Biology, Université libre de Bruxelles
  
• Over 100 publications in refereed scientific journals, international proceedings, chapters in books and co-edition of special Journal issue
  
• Frequent participation to international conferences and workshops as invited speaker and/or session chairperson, invited seminars in Belgium and abroad (over 100 invited oral communications)
  
• Coordination and participation as PI to several interdisciplinary research projects funded at European and National levels
  
• Invited research stays abroad (France, Israel, Italy, USA, Denmark)
  

Scientific expertise:

• Participation in scientific evaluation committees for several research programs, including the chairmanship of the scientific evaluation committees of the “Systems Biology Applied to Cancer Research” program organized by the Cancer ITMO of the French Alliance for Life and Health Siences (AVIESAN)
  
• Member of several conference scientific committees and organisation of international conferences or workshops in various countries
  
• Participation to the evaluation committees of Ph.D. and Habilitation theses, recruitment committees, in Belgium, France, Israel, USA
  
• Scientific expert for various research projects in Europe, Israel, USA
  

Educational activities:

• Extensive teaching experience in Nonlinear Dynamics, Theoretical Immunology, Modelling of Biological Systems, Logical Modelling of Genetic Regulatory Networks (predominantly advanced courses at the level of License and Master degrees) at the Université libre de Bruxelles and other Universities in Belgium and abroad
  
• Launching of the two-years Master program “Bioinformatique et Modélisation” of the Université libre de Bruxelles (2007)
  
• International Spring and Summer School courses in Biomathematics
  
• Direction of PhD and master theses