Patrick Flandrin is a Research Director of the CNRS (Centre National de la Reserche Scientifique). He holds a position at the Ecole Normale Superior in Lyon, where he leads the group "Traitement du Signal" (Signal Processing), which is part of the Physics Department. He is also Associate Director of the federative CNRS structure, information, Signal, Images et Vision (ISIS), and has served on the editorial boards of several journals. He was awarded the Philip Morris Scientific Prize in 1991.