In June 1992, Michel Guidal obtained his Master's degree in "Fields, Particles, Matter" from the Université Paris Sud in Orsay, France. In December of the following year, he pursued a Master of Science at the University of South Carolina at Columbia, USA, on the research topic "Simulation of the CLAS detector at CEBAF with GEANT". 3 years later, Michel Guidal prepared a thesis in physics at CEA Saclay (SPhN /DAPNIA/DSM), on the theme "Photoproduction of mesons on the nucleon at intermediate energies". In December 1996, he was a Post-Doc at NIKHEF, Amsterdam. The following year, Michel was appointed Chargé de Recherche at CNRS/IN2P3 at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay. 10 years later, Michel Guidal received his Habilitation à Direire des Recherches (HDR) at the Université Paris Sud in Orsay, on the topic of "Experimental and phenomenological study of Generalised Parton Distributions". In 2009, he became director of research (2nd class) at CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay. In 2014, he was awarded the Joliot-Curie prize by the Société Française de Physique. In 2017, he became the Institute's Director of Research.