title: Gilles Boeuf
text: # Gilles Boeuf
  
  Gilles Boeuf (born November 6, 1950, in Paimbœuf) is a French biologist, who served as president of the National Museum of Natural History, France from February 2009 to August 2015. He was a professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University. He was knighted with the French Order of Merit in 2009, and the Legion of Honour in 2013.
  
  