Serge Janouin-Benanti  

Born in Niort, in the Deux-Sèvres department in France, Serge Janouin-Benanti holds a PhD in Science. Georges Charpak, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, was a committee member for one of his theses.

He began his career as a nuclear physics researcher with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) then with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, before working in medical imaging for Thomson-CSF and General Electric. As a consultant for the industry and R&D (Research and Development), he led a consulting firm and engaged in many business sectors in France and throughout the world, including the automotive, utilities, food-processing, and energy industries.

Since then, he has devoted himself to the writing of true and cruel tales (criminal cases in the form of short stories), historical novels, and biographies of ordinary men who lived in extraordinary times.

He’s described as having a reserved and antisocial character. However, for those who insist, he knows how to cook up small plates using mushrooms (to be consumed at your own risk) which he selects and gathers himself, before taking his guests on his sailboat to show them the charm of the Crone’s Lookout, Reaper’s Cliffs, the Witch’s Eye, Skull Rock, or the Bay of the Dead.