Jean Goubault-Larrecq is Full Professor of Computer Science at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France. He obtained his PhD in 1993 from the Ecole Polytechnique in the field of automated deduction, and since then he has led an active career in several fields of computer science: logic, computer security, semantics, domain theory, probabilistic and non-deterministic systems. He is currently heading team SECSI (security of information systems) at INRIA, France's national institute for research in computer science and control. He is the recipient of the 2011 CNRS Silver Medal in the field