Didier Raoult

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Who is Didier Raoult?

Didier Raoult is a French biology researcher. He holds MD and PhD degrees, and specializes in infectious diseases. He is "classified among the first ten French researchers by the journal Nature, for the number of his publications and for his citations number, as it was reported in 2008 by the daily economic newspaper resuming his work.". Moreover, according to the source ISI Web Of Knowledge, Didier Raoult is the researcher who publishes the most in France to date.

In 1984, he created the Rickettsia Unit at Aix-Marseille University. He also teaches infectious diseases in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of the Mediterranean, and since 1982 has managed 74 M.D. theses and since 1989, 38 PhD theses. As of 2010, he has 1,531 indexed publications, with a sum of the times cited of 35,526 and an H-index of 83, including 7 papers in Science and 2 in Nature, the two most representative reviews according to the academic ranking of world universities.

Since 2008, professor Raoult has been the director the "URMITE" i.e. the Research Unit in Infectious and Tropical Emergent Diseases, collaborating with CNRS, IRD, INSERM and the Aix Marseille University, in Marseille. His laboratory employs 140 people, including 45 very active researchers who publish between 150 and 200 papers per year, and had produced 29 patents to date.

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1952

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on July 23, 2013

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