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In 2007, ESPCI Paris established an International Scientific Committee which, under the terms of its remit, "presents annually to the Board of Directors a written report on teaching and research activity, and makes proposals for orientations." The International Scientific Committee is composed of eminent, internationally recognized figures from the academic world, research and industry. The ten members are named by the President of the Committee on a joint proposal by the Director General, and the President of the Scientific Council of the City of Paris.
ESPCI Paris is one of the world’s few institutions of higher education and research to have assembled a team of exceptional scope, capable of jointly developing an overall vision for the institution’s major scientific and educational policy orientations, to position the School permanently in the international arena.
President
– Professor of Physics and Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford University
– Chair of the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). (and past president)
– Nobel Prize in Physics 1997
Research interest:
atomic physics, polymer physics, biophysics, molecular biology, medical imaging, nanoparticle synthesis, batteries and other electrochemical applications.
Members from academia
Prof. Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering, Physics and Astronomy à l’Université de Northwestern
Research interest:
Theoretical models for macromolecules properties, functional nanostructured materials, complex fluids
Co-director of the Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Institute and professor of Physics at Columbia University.
Research interest:
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics, and Professor of Electrical Engineering. at Yale University.
Research interest:
mesoscopic nanophotonic and biophotonic physics
Prof. Ben Feringa (prix Nobel)
Full professor at the University of Groningen and Jacobus H. van’t Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016
Research interest:
nanotechnology and synthetic organic chemistry.
Professor in the department of chemistry at the Mellon College of Science.
Research interest:
Polymer chemistry
Professor at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology (Zurich)
Research interest:
Experimental Imaging and Neuroenergetics
Members from industry
Dr. Patrick Maestro
Past Chief Scientific Officer Solvay and Member of the French Academy of Engineering
Dr. Gilles Spenlehauer
Scientific Director, Research and Innovation, L’Oréal Group
Dr. Helen Routh
Advisor to hospital/academia/industry partnerships & startups; former Senior Vice President, Strategy & Innovation, Royal Philips