Alain H. Fuchs#
| Membership Number: | 2968 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.chimie-paristech.fr/molsim/staff/Fuchs/index.en.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present President of PSL Research University (Paris Sciences & Lettres)
- 2010 - 2017 Executive President of C.N.R.S (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
- 2006-2010 Head of Chimie ParisTech (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris), and Professor at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
- 1999-2005 Director (and founder) of the Physical Chemistry Laboratory (Laboratoire de Chimie Physique), and Professor at Université Paris-Sud, Orsay
- 1997-99 Director of the Laboratoire de Chimie Physique des Matériaux Amorphes, Université de Paris-Sud
- Member of the board of Directors of the International Adsorption Society
- 2004-2008 President of the physical chemistry evaluation committee, of CNRS (section 13, Comité national de la recherche scientifique)
- 1998-2001 President of the French national committee for the recruitment of chemistry professors (agrégation externe de chimie)
- President of the physical chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society (Société Chimique de France)
- 1991-1997 Research Director, CNRS
- 2000 Invited Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara
- 1984-85 Short-term visitor: Imperial College London, Technische Universität Berlin, University of Edinburgh, North Carolina State University, University of California Los Angeles
- Post-Doctoral research associate, University of Edinburgh
Fields of Scholarship
- Theoretical chemistry
Honours and Awards
- 1983: PhD in physical chemistry, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
- 1975: Chemical engineer, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Chevalier des Palmes Académiques
- 2014 Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur
