 Paul Deheuvels is the son of René Deheuvels.Normalien (class of 1967), agrégé de mathématiques (1969), doctor in mathematical sciences (1974), he has been professor of statistics at the Pierre-et-Marie Curie University (now Sorbonne University) since 1974.He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences (Mechanical and Computer Sciences section) in November 2000 (he had been a correspondent since March 1994).