Jean Berstel

Jean Berstel
Born	1941 (age 75–76) Nîmes, France
Residence	France
Fields	Combinatorics on words Formal language theory
Institutions	University of Marne-la-Vallée Pierre and Marie Curie University
Alma mater	Paris Diderot University
Doctoral advisor	Marcel-Paul Schützenberger

Jean Berstel (born 1941) is a French mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to combinatorics on words and formal language theory. He is a currently a professor emeritus at the University of Marne-la-Vallée.

Berstel earned his doctorate (doctorat d'État) at the Paris Diderot University in 1973. In 1973--1995 he was a professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University, and in 1995--2005 a professor at the University of Marne-la-Vallée, where he is a professor emeritus since 2005.

In 2006, Berstel was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Turku, Finland. A festschrift in his honour was published in 2003 as a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science.

Berstel has been a member of the Lothaire group of mathematicians that developed the foundations of combinatorics of words. He has published several scientific monographs, including "Transductions and Context-free Languages" (1979), "Theory of Codes" (1985, jointly with Dominique Perrin), and "Codes and Automata" (2009; jointly with Dominique Perrin and Christophe Reutenauer) as well as the three Lothaire books.

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