Thomas Lecuit

Thomas Lecuit is a Professor at Collège de France, leading the Dynamics of Living Systems Chair. His research combines developmental biology, biophysics, and systems biology to study morphogenesis—the physical and informational processes driving biological form from cells to organisms. He heads a team at the Institut de Biologie du Développement in Marseille and directs the Turing Center for Living Systems, an interdisciplinary hub integrating physics, mathematics, and computational approaches.

• ERC Advanced Grant (2024)
• Chair of Excellence in Biology-Health (2024)
• Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Life Sciences (2015)
• CNRS Silver Medal (2015)

His work reveals how mechanical forces, genetic programs, and self-organization govern tissue morphogenesis, dendrite development, and morphogenetic waves. Publications demonstrate predictive models for biological reproducibility and evolution, with applications in cell biology, neuroscience, and biological information theory. Lectures at Collège de France and international institutions explore themes like information flow and computation in living systems.