Claire Rougeulle is a research director (DR1) at the CNRS. She is deputy director of the Epigenetics and Cell Fate Institute in Paris, coordinator of the LabEx (Laboratory of Excellence) Who Am I? and Professor at Ecole Polytechnique. She received her PhD in 1996 from University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. She was recruited to the CNRS in 1999 after her post-doctoral studies at the Harvard Medical School in Boston. . Claire joined the Epigenetics and Cell Fate Institute in Paris 2009, of which she is one of the founding members. Her projects focus on epigenetics and the contribution of the non-coding genome to gene regulatory networks, with an evolutionary perspective.