françois.pernot@cyu.fr
As a full professor in Early Modern History and Modern History at CY Cergy Paris University, François Pernot teaches at Bachelor, Master and PhD levels. He is also the author of various books, works, articles, reports and papers for colloquiums on War studies, political, military and diplomatic history of Modern Europe and European countries from the XVth century to the XIXth century, Borders studies, the history of the “Lotharingian Europe”, heritage studies and the history of events and actors. He works too on war, defence, security, armament and arms in the XXIst century and on the XXIst century wars (European Wars Studies, cyberwar, climatic wars, future wars, ultrawars…). In September 2017, he obtained the Jean Monnet European Chair in History: “War and Europe: Defense, Security, Heritage, Memory and Culture”. As such, he is leading research on European War Studies. Author of L’Histoire de la Guerre, de Antiquité à demain (Ellipses, 2021), he has just published Guerres et batailles de l’époque moderne, de Marignan à Yorktown (Perrin/Ministry of Defence, 2024) and is preparing a book on The Battle of Rocroi in 2025 (Perrin, Ministry of Defence).
François Pernot is also director of the Doctoral College of all the Doctoral Schools of CY Cergy Paris University, director of the Graduate School “Humanities, Creation, Heritage”, member of the CNRS’s major unity of research (UMR – CNRS) 9022 Héritages – culture/s, patrimoine/s, création/s (CYU – CNRS) and coordinator of the Quality Council of Eutopia Alliance. He is also Security and Defence Officer of CY Cergy Paris University and former auditor — and graduate — of the “High Level course of Armament” (2007-2008) (École militaire – Paris). Besides, François Pernot is the special international advisor of France Universités (2024 – …) ; former director of the Europe and International Department (EID) of Hcéres (former AERES) (September 1st 2013-September 1st 2021) and former member of the board and vice-president of ENQA (European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education) (2017-2021). François Pernot was vice-chairman of the University of Cergy-Pontoise (2002-2007) (300 professors, 15,000 students), and dean of the Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences (2007-2013) (60 professors, 1,500 students).
For further info about his academic profile: http://www.u-cergy.fr/fr/~pernot – https://heritages.cyu.fr/