Doctor Jean Martin Luis

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Summary

Name Jean Martin Luis Aliases Status Registered Non-Evolved Gender Male Race/Eth. Caucasian Birthdate August 20, 1948 Age 62 Height 5' 9" Build Average Eyes Blue Hair Gray Residence Cambridge, Massachusetts Employment The Commonwealth Institute of Science and Research, Cambridge MA Parents Madeline Luis (mother; deceased) Arnold Luis (father; deceased) Siblings None Marital Status Widower (Emelia Luis) Children Juliette Luis (daughter; deceased) First Seen PR.1NC3-55 Last Seen Profile Doctor Jean Martin Luis is a French scientists pioneering man-machine interface and research into the Evolved, a co-worker of Dr.Mohinder Suresh.

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Background

Jean Martin Luis was born in Domont, France. He entered the École Normale Supérieure (a pretigious French school) in 1966, where he obtained a Bachelor's degree (Licence) in 1968 and a Master's degree (Diplome d'Études Supérieure) in 1969. He also received his agrégation in natural science the same year. He began his scientific career during his ENS years during summer internships in Banyuls-sur-Mer where he identified a new genus of parasitic Copepod. He pursued PhD studies at the Pasteur Institute under the direction of Jacques Monod and Andre Jacobs, and gained his doctorate in 1972. In 1973 his daughter Juliette passed away from an unknown viral infection gained while traveling abroad with her family in India. Her death crushed Dr.Luis, and began his obsession with understanding the nature of the virus that killed her.

Luis left France for postdoctoral studies first at the University of California Berkeley in (1975-1976), several years after his daughter's death. His obsession with scientific pursuits had destroyed his marriage in the wake of Juliette's death, leading to his divorce from his wife in 1977. Luis then studied at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New-York (1977). He returned to France as attaché to the chair of Molecular Biology held by Jacques Monod. In 1982, he became director of the Unit of Molecular Neurobiology at the Pasteur Institute, where he received a professorship in 1985. In 1985, Luis was elected professor at the Collège de France, chair of Cell Communications, position that he held until 2007.

Following the revelation of the Evolved in 2007, Luis contacted the now famous Dr.Mohinder Suresh and began a partnership with the doctor that would eventually found the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Research in the state of Massachusetts in the United States.

Luis is an acclaimed neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from th structure and functions of proteins to the early development of the nervous system up to cognitive functions. Luis is known by the non-scientific public for his ideas regarding the connection between mind and physical brain as put forth in his book, Conversations on the Mind and the Matter of Mathematics. He is the author of more than 600 scientific articles and several books, technical or for general audience.

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