Education

1970-1975 Ecole Normale Supérieure, rue d’Ulm. Université Paris VI, DEA Physique Quantique et Atomistique, Prof. Cohen-Tannoudji (Nobel Price in physics 1997).

1975 Ranked 3rd at "Agrégation" Teaching Examination, Physics-Chemistry, Ministry of French Education.

1982 PhD, Thèse d’Etat, Polymer Physics and Chemistry: « Transient relaxation after stretching of a polymère chain in a melt », J. Friedel, P. G. de Gennes (Nobel Price physics 1991), H. Benoit, L. Monnerie, K. Osaki, G. Jannink Univ. Paris-Sud-Orsay/France.

1985 Postdoc, Theory of Gels, Sir Sam Prof. Edwards, Cavendish Lab, Univ. Cambridge, UK. 

Research

His research focuses on the polymer conformations and dynamics, at rest and in deformed state, in melts, networks, gels, liquid crystalline polymers, polyelectrolytes, biopolymers, proteins and mixed systems. He is also interested in studies of interfaces in polymers. He has published more than 200 papers, which were cited by 5000 citations. The H-index is higher than 40.

More information can be found in:

http://francois-boue.monsite-orange.fr