Peter Mergaert - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1990 - University degree in Chemistry, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
  
• 1996 - PhD degree in Sciences, Biotechnology, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
  
• 2011 - Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Université Paris-Sud

• Research Director (Directeur de recherche DR1) - CNRS
  
• Institut of Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) – Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS
  
• Group leader Plant-Bacteria Interactions group: I am directing a team of about 20 persons working on symbiotic and pathogenic interactions of plants with bacteria and on symbiotic interactions of insects
  
• Member of the Scientific Council of the I2BC (720 personnel, 70 research teams)
  

• 2013 - 2015 Group leader at the Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  
• 2014 - 2015 Visiting scientist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan and the Hokkaido University, Sapporo Japan.-
  
• 1999 - 2013 Researcher and Project leader at the Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France