Serge Galam has been a theoretical physicist, an expert in disordered systems, and the initiator of sociophysics for more than forty years. He obtained a doctorate in Paris at the University Pierre et Marie Curie in 1975 and then a PhD from Tel-Aviv University in 1981, both in physics. He then moved to New York City, where he was a Research Fellow at the City College from the City University of New York (CUNY) for two years before becoming an Assistant Professor at New York University (NYU) for another two years. In 1985, he left NYU to join the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris as a full-time researcher, working successively in several labs of Physics at the University Pierre et Marie Curie. He became a senior researcher (Director of Research) at CNRS in 1999. In 2004, he joined the Research Center in Applied Epistemology (CREA) at Ecole Polytechnique. In 2013, he moved to the CEVIPOF, the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po in Paris, where he is now an Emeritus Director of Research. Serge Galam was able to make the first prediction of a highly improbable event based on his model of opinion dynamics with the prediction, several months before the vote, of the victory of the "no" to the proposal for a European constitution in the 2005 French referendum. He also predicted against the odds Trump's 2016 victory but narrowly fell short in his 2020 prediction of Biden's victory.