She is the 17th Professor of Anatomy in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.
Paluch received her Bachelor of Science degree from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, and her PhD degree in biophysics from Institut Curie and Paris Diderot University, France.
[1] After completing her PhD, Paluch was appointed Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.
Paluch is the first woman to hold the chair of Professor of Anatomy in its 300-year history.
[3][4] The cortex enables the cell to resist externally applied forces and to exert mechanical work.