Olivier Serre graduated from ENS Cachan. He then completed a PhD in computer science at Université Paris-Diderot, a post-doctorate at RWTH Aachen, before becoming a researcher at CNRS. He is currently CNRS research director at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale (IRIF) in the automata and applications team. Since September 2021, he has also been Deputy Scientific Director at the CNRS Computer Science Institute.