Christophe Zimmer PhD

Christophe Zimmer is a principal investigator at Institut Pasteur (Paris, France). He obtained a PhD in astrophysics from University Paris 7 and did a first postdoc at University of California Los Angeles on the physics of planetary magnetospheres and the subsurface oceans of Jupiter’s moons. He then did a second postdoc at Institut Pasteur on quantitative analysis of microscopy images.

He now heads the Imaging and Modeling Unit of Institut Pasteur, which develops computational and experimental approaches to quantitatively characterise selected processes in cell biology and microbiology. The lab currently focuses on the spatial architecture and function of the genome and on the early replication cycle of HIV.