Bernard Bigot#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2896 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Bernard Bigot passed away May 14, 2022.
Positions Held
- 2015 Director-General of the ITER Organization
- 2009 Chairman and CEO of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission
- 2003 High Commissioner for Atomic Energy
- 2002 and 2003 Chief of staff (Directeur du Cabinet) of Claudie Haigneré (Minister Delegate for Research and New Technologies) and the deputy chief of staff (Directeur adjoint du Cabinet) of Luc Ferry (Minister of Youth, National Education and Research)
- 1998 - 2002 Director of the CNRS catalysis research institute
- 2000 - 2003 Deputy Director of Research at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and Director
- 1993 - 1997 Head of the Scientific and Technical Mission, then as the Director General of Research and Technology, French Ministry of Higher Education and Research
- 1981 - 1993 Deputy Director, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Fields of Scholarship
- Nuclear physics
Honours and Awards
- Commander Cross of the Legion of Honour
- Order of the Polar Star, Sweden
- Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite
- 2014 Order of the Rising Sun, Japan
- 2019 Friendship Award, China
