Romain Koszul#
| Membership Number: | 7492 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/spatial-regulation-of-genomes/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3086-1173 |
| Publication Link: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=koszul+r&filter=years.2025-2025&sort=date |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 Director of Genomes and Genetics Department, Institut Pasteur
- 2023 Professor, Institut Pasteur
- 2017 Group Leader, department of Genomes and Genetics, Institut Pasteur
- 2016 Directeur de recherche (DR2 then DR1) at CNRS, UMR3525
- 2011 - 2017 Group Leader (tenure track), department of Genomes and Genetics, Institut Pasteur
- 2008 - 2016 Chargé de recherche at Centre national de la recherche scientifique CNRS UMR3525
- 2005 - 2008 Postdoc fellow, Dept. Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard, Cambridge, Supervisor: Pr. Nancy Kleckner
Fields of Scholarship
- Computational tools for genomics and metagenomics analysis
- General principles of regulation of genome organization
- Genome stability & dynamics, DNA repair
- Functional chromosome organization
- Development of metagenomics proximity ligation assays
- Synthetic genomics for functional genome organization studies
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Chaire d’Excellence en Biologie Santé (ANR, €2M)
- 2023 Medal of Académie des Sciences, Section Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Génomique
- 2022 EMBO election
- 2017 ERC Consolidator Grant (2018 – 2023) SynarchiC, P.I.
- 2017 Prix Pasteur Vallery-Radot / Académie des Sciences
- 2016 EMBO Young Investigator Program 2016
- 2010 ERC Starting Grant (2011 – 2017) DICIG, P.I.
