Arnold Migus#
| Membership Number: | 3067 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 to now Magistrate at the Cour des Comptes (French Supreme Court of Audit). Honorary since 2018
- 2008 - 2010 Vice-Président of both the European Heads of Research Councils (EUROHORCS) and the European Science Foundation (ESF)
- 2006 - 2010 General Director (CEO) of CNRS
- 2003 - 2005 General Director (CEO) of the Institute of Optics
- 2003 - 2005 Founder and director general of the Institute of Lasers and Plasmas (CNRS – CEA – University Bordeaux 1)
- 2000 - 2001 Chair of Engineering Council of CNRS
- 1996 - 2003 Director of Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses (LULI, CNRS / CEA / Ecole Polytechnique)
- 1994 - 1995 Visiting scientist at Department EECS, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, (USA)
- 1990 (summer) Visiting scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Ca, USA)
- 1985 - 1994 CNRS Research Director (LOA)
- 1979 - 1985 Scientist at École Polytechnique (Applied Optics Lab, LOA)
- 1978 - 1979 Visiting scientist: AT&T Bell Telephone Labs (Holmdel, NJ, USA)
- 1973 - 1977 Scientist at the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (Research Group in Spatial Geodesy, CNES / Ecole Polytechnique)
Fields of Scholarship
- public policy assessment
- Ultrafast and ultra-intense lasers and applications
- Optics
- Physics
- Astronomy
- Biology - Biomedicine
- Innovations and technology transfer to industry
- Inertial fusion for energy
- Science and society
- Chemistry
Honours and Awards
- 1995 Elected "Fellow of the Optical Society of America"
- 2006 Chevalier dans l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur
- 2007 Elected "International member of the US National Academy of Engineering" (http://www.nas.edu
)
- 2011 Elected member of Academia Europaea
- 2019 Elected "Corresponding member" of the French National Academy of Medicine
- 2023 Elected "Full member" of the French National Academy of Medicine
