Dominique Perrin

Dominique Pierre Perrin, born in 1946, is a French mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to coding theory and to combinatorics on words. He earned his doctorate at Paris 7 University in 1975, was a CNRS researcher from 1970 to 1977, taught at the University of Chile in 1972 and 1973, and later held professorships at the University of Rouen, Paris 7 University and the École Polytechnique. Since 1993 he has been a professor at the University of Marne-la-Vallée, and since 2004 he has been President of ESIEE Paris. He belongs to the Lothaire group of mathematicians who developed the foundations of combinatorics on words, has co-authored three scientific monographs, and has been a member of Academia Europaea since 1989.