Ivan Matic is a research director at the CNRS; and PI of the laboratory "Robustness and evolvability of life", Institut Cochin. He received his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Genetics from the University of Paris XI, Orsay, France. His clinical interests are Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology, Molecular Genetics, Molecular Mechanisms, Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing, and DNA Mismatch Repair.