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Paris, 20 january 2010
Alain Fuchs appointed as president of CNRS
Alain Fuchs has been appointed as president of CNRS by the Council of Ministers on January 20th, 2010, on the recommendation of the Minister of Higher Education and Research. He will take over from Catherine Bréchignac, whose term has come to an end. Dr. Fuchs, Senior Professor, former CNRS Senior Researcher, has been director of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP, Chimie ParisTech) since January 1st, 2006.
Born in
In 1995, he became a Senior Professor of Chemistry at
His field of research is modelization and molecular simulation of the behavior of confined fluids, and has resulted in a number of industrial collaborations.
From 2004 to 2007, Dr. Fuchs was President of Section 13 (Physical Chemistry--Molecules, Environments) of the National Committee of Scientific Research, which is based at CNRS. A former member of the scientific committee of CNRS's “Science and citizens” program (from 1997 to 1999), Dr. Fuchs also served as Senior Advisor on calculation to the CNRS Chemistry Department (1997-2003).
An elected member of the CDEFI permanent (Conférence des directeurs des écoles françaises d'ingénieurs) since 2007, he has also been on the educational board of INSTN (Institut national des sciences et techniques nucléaires), which is affiliated with the CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission), and of the Comité de coordination des formations en sciences et technologies du nucléaire since 2009. A former member of the scientific board of CECAM Lyon (Centre européen de calcul atomique et moléculaire) from 1999 to 2008, he was also president of the physical chemistry division of the Société française de chimie and the Société française de physique from 2002 to 2005.
Dr. Fuchs is a knight of the Order of Academic Palms (1996), member of the Board of directors of the International Adsorption Society, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. © CNRS Photothèque / S. Godefroy Alain Fuchs president of CNRS
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