Geneviève Almouzni, PhD, is Director of Research exceptional class at the CNRS and principal investigator of the Chromatin Dynamics team at the Institut Curie in Paris. She was director of the Research Center at the same Institute from 2013 to 2018 and has been its honorary director since then.

She is a world leader in understanding the organisation and function of the genome during development and disease, particularly in cancer. Constantly striving to expand the boundaries of scientific knowledge, she is co-chair of the LifeTime Initiative, a European research platform that uses innovative technologies aimed at tracking, understanding and treating human cells at the time of disease. She is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the French Academy of Sciences and the European Research Council since 2019, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences.

She has been awarded the 2024 l’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International award “for her seminal contributions to understanding how DNA is packaged with proteins inside the cell nucleus.”