Arezki Boudaoud

Mention Arezki Boudaoud to people at the ENS de Lyon and right away you'll see faces light up and flattering comments pour out: "He's so kind.. and so hard-working." Arezki Boudaoud is a professor at the ENS de Lyon. As a researcher at the Plant Reproduction and Development laboratory (RDP), he leads the team "Biophysics and development". As a child, he read tremendously: all kinds of books, and several per week. While in high school in Algiers, he also prepared for the French baccalaureate. He was admitted to "Ginette" preparatory school and later to the ENS in Paris, to study math and physics.