Francis-André Wollman is an emeritus research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), a member of the French Academy of Sciences, a member of EMBO, and has received the Silver Medal from the CNRS. In the mid-1970s, he joined the photosynthesis laboratory of Pierre Joliot at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (IBPC) in Paris and in the late 1990s, he became the director of this laboratory before being appointed director of IBPC in 2007. His research has focused on the biogenesis, regulation, and evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis. Throughout his career, he has used the genetics of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for biophysical, biochemical, and structural studies to provide a dynamic view of photosynthesis as being highly responsive to an ever-changing environment through its bioenergetic integration and metabolic flexibility.