Frederic Magoules graduated with a B.Sc. in Engineering Sciences in 1993, a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics in 1994 and a M.Sc. in Numerical Analysis in 1995, from Universite Pierre & Marie Curie. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Universite Pierre Marie Curie in 2000. He then post-doc'ed and taught there for one year, as Assistant Professor of Numerical Analysis, prior to joining Universite Henri Poincare in 2000 as Assistant and then Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Engineering. He received his HDR (Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches) from Universite Pierre & Marie Curie in 2005. He joined Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in 2006 as Professor of Applied Mathematics (in 2015, Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures merged with Supelec and became CentraleSupelec, Universite Paris-Saclay).