page_title: Aix-Marseille University
section_title: Scientists and academics
hierarchical_section_title: Aix-Marseille University / Notable faculty and staff / Scientists and academics
caption_attribution_description: English: David E Bloom
context_page_description: Aix-Marseille University is a public research university located in the region of Provence, southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II of Anjou, Count of Provence, petitioned the Pisan Antipope Alexander V to establish the University of Provence. The university as it is today was formed by the merger of the University of Provence, the University of the Mediterranean and Paul Cézanne University. The merger became effective on 1 January 2012, resulting in the creation of the largest university in the French-speaking world, with about 80,000 students. AMU has the largest budget of any academic institution in the Francophone world, standing at €750 million.
  The university is organized around five main campuses situated in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. Apart from its major campuses, AMU owns and operates facilities in Arles, Aubagne, Avignon, Digne-les-Bains, Gap, La Ciotat, Lambesc and Salon-de-Provence. The university is headquartered at the Pharo, Marseille.
  AMU has produced many notable alumni in the fields of law, politics, business, science, academia, and arts.
context_section_description: Jean-Claude Abric – professor in social psychology
  Giulio Angioni – Italian writer and anthropologist, professor at the University of Cagliari, fellow of St Antony's College of the University of Oxford
  Nicolas Maurice Arthus – French immunologist and physiologist
  Anthony Barnes Atkinson – Fellow of the British Academy, a senior research fellow of Nuffield College of the University of Oxford and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE)
  Sydney Hervé Aufrère – French Egyptologist, archaeologist, and director of research at CNRS
  Philip Augustine – Indian gastroenterologist, specialist in gastrointestinal endoscopy
  Henri Bacry – visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study and a researcher at CERN
  Patrick Baert – Belgian sociologist and social theorist, reader in Social Theory at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge
  René Baillaud – French astronomer
  Ugo Bardi – professor in physical chemistry at the University of Florence
  Eugène Benoist – French classical philologist, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
  Reinhold Bertlmann – Austrian physicist, professor of physics at the University of Vienna
  Eugenio Bianchi – Italian theoretical physicist
  Danielle Bleitrach – French sociologist
  Maurice Blondel – French philosopher
  David E. Bloom – the Chair of Harvard University's Department of Global Health and Population, professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Director of the Program on the Global Demography of Aging
  Jean Bosler – French astronomer
  Svetlana Broz – Bosnian–Serbian author and physician, the granddaughter of the 1st President of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito
  Henri Buisson – French physicist
  François Burgat – French political scientist and arabist, senior research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and the Head of the French Institute of the Near East
  Jean Cabannes – French physicist
  Christian Cambillau – French scientist at the CNRS in Structural Biology
  Forrest Capie – professor emeritus of Economic History at the Cass Business School, City University London
  Carlo Carraro – President of the University of Venice, Director of the Sustainable Development Programme of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, and Director of the Climate Impacts and Policy Division of the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC)
  Maurice Caullery – French biologist, lecturer at Sorbonne University
  Jean Chacornac – French astronomer
  Jérôme Eugène Coggia – French astronomer
  Alain Colmerauer – French computer scientist and the creator of the logic programming language Prolog
  Henri Coquand – French geologist and paleontologist
  Pablo Cottenot – French astronomer
  Brian Lee Crowley – Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and the founding President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS)
  Boris Cyrulnik – French doctor, ethologist, neurologist and psychiatrist
  Jacques Daviel – French ophthalmologist, oculist to Louis XV of France, Fellow of the Royal Society, and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  Christie Davies – British sociologist, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Reading
  Rajeev Dehejia – professor of public policy in the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University
  Charles Depéret – French geologist and paleontologist, member of the French Academy of Sciences and the Société géologique de France
  August Alphonse Derbès – French naturalist, zoologist and botanist
  Jean Dufay – French astronomer, member of the French Academy of Sciences
  Jean-Yves Empereur – French archeologist and egyptologist
  Roger Establet – French scholar of the sociology of education
  Honoré Fabri – French Jesuit theologian, mathematician, physicist and controversialist
  Charles Fabry – Professor of General Physics at Sorbonne University and the École Polytechnique, co-discoverer of the ozone layer
  Charles Fehrenbach – French astronomer, member of the French Academy of Sciences, and Director of the Observatoire de Haute Provence (OHP)
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caption: David E. Bloom, Chair of Harvard University's Department of Global Health and Population
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