Jean Berstel
Jean Berstel is a French mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to combinatorics on words and formal language theory. He is currently a professor emeritus at the University of Marne-la-Vallée.
Biography
Berstel earned his doctorate at Paris Diderot University in 1973. In 1973–1995 he was a professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University, and in 1995–2005 a professor at the University of Marne-la-Vallée, where he has been a professor emeritus since 2005.In 2006, Berstel was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Turku, Finland. A festschrift in his honour was published in 2003 as a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science.
Research contributions
Berstel has been a member of the Lothaire group of mathematicians that developed the foundations of combinatorics of words. He has published several scientific monographs, includingTransductions and Context-free Languages,
Theory of Codes, and Codes and Automata
as well as the three Lothaire books.