Jean-Luc Vayssière

Jean-Luc Vayssière, born in 1956, is a French professor, specializing in genetics and cell biology. He was President of the "Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines" from the 12th of April 2012 until April 2016.
Jean is also a graduate from the Paris Diderot University in molecular biology, he started his career as assistant at the "Collège de France" in the year 1990. In 1994, he became lecturer at the "Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines". In 2001, he was appointed as the head of training at the "École pratique des hautes études" before entering in 2006 as teacher at the "Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines". Alongside his teaching activities, he is a researcher at the Laboratory of Genetics and Cell Biology, responsible of the "stress and cell death" team.
The 12th of April 2012, he is elected President of the "Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines", succeeding Sylvie Faucheux. He is replaced by Dider Guillemot in May 2016.