Career
His main contributions concern the design of distributed algorithms, fault-tolerance of distributed computing systems (mainly focusing on the consensus problem), and distributed computability. He is a professor at the University of Rennes (France) since 1984. He has co-authored numerous research papers on distributed computing, and has written 11 books
2010: Senior Member, Institut Universitaire de France
2015: Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing (SIROCCO award).