Jean-Luc Vayssière, born in 1956, is a French professor, specializing in genetics and cell biology. He was President of the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines from the 12th of April 2012 until April 2016.

Jean is also a graduate from the Paris Diderot University in molecular biology, he started his career as assistant at the Collège de France in the year 1990.^[2] In 1994, he became lecturer at the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. In 2001, he was appointed as the head of training at the École pratique des hautes études before entering in 2006 as teacher at the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Alongside his teaching activities, he is a researcher at the Laboratory of Genetics and Cell Biology,^[3] responsible of the "stress and cell death" team.^[4] The 12th of April 2012, he is elected President of the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, succeeding Sylvie Faucheux.^[5] He is replaced by Dider Guillemot in May 2016.