Dr. Arnaud Gautier

Arnaud Gautier is Professor in Chemistry at Sorbonne University and principal investigator in the Laboratoire des Biomolécules, where he develops chemogenetic methods and probes for imaging biomolecules in cells. He studied chemistry at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, where he received a PhD in chemistry in 2005. In 2006, he joined the group of Kai Johnsson at the École Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne where he developed methods for labeling proteins in living cells. In 2009, he joined the group of Jason W. Chin at the MRC laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge UK, where he worked on the expansion of the genetic code of mammalian cells. Arnaud Gautier was Assistant Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure from 2010 to 2019, before joining Sorbonne University in 2019 as Full Professor. Arnaud Gautier is junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and laureate of the 2017 CNRS bronze medal.