Benoit Masquida was born in Strasbourg in 1970. After a national competition of crystallography and biological biology, he made a visit under the direction of Professor Eric Westhof in Strasbourg, where he is fascinated by the study of the structure of nucleic acids by modeling. molecular and by crystallography. After that, he is part of Yale University in the US to continue his structural studies at Professor Jennifer Doudna.
Since 2001, he has been a researcher at the CNRS in the study of RNA structures with a marked interest for ribozymes and protein-RNA complexes in the context of various biological methods such as the inflammatory response or the role of RNA in mitochondria. He is the author of about fifty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.
