Alain Filloux PhD

Alain Filloux received his Ph.D. degree in 1988 from the University d’Aix-Marseille » (France). From 1988 to 1993, he stayed at the University of Utrecht, (The Netherlands), initially as a post-doctoral fellow and later appointed as Assistant Professor. In 1994, he is recruited at the French National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Marseille (France), where he is appointed as head of a research unit in 2003. In 2008, he was appointed as Professor in Molecular Microbiology at the Imperial College London (UK) and he is chairman of the Centre of Molecular Microbiology and Infection. The main focus of his research is on bacterial pathogenesis, molecular mechanisms of protein secretion, biofilm formation, and regulation of gene expression. The system model he used is the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa.