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Alain Fuchs
Birth Place:Lausanne, Switzerland
Nationality:French
Fields:Physical Chemistry
Education:École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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Alain Fuchs (born 10 April 1953) is a Swiss-born French Doctor of Science and chemistry Professor, specialized in molecular simulation. He served as the president of Chimie ParisTech - PSL from 2006 to 2010. He has served as the president of the French National Centre for Scientific Research from 2010 to 2017.[1] [2] He became an Officer of the Legion of Honour in 2014.[3]

From 24 October 2017 until 26 June 2024, he was president of PSL University (Paris Sciences & Lettres).[4] [5]

Biography

Alain Fuchs graduated as a Chemical engineer (1975) at EPFL. In 1983, he became a doctor in Physical Chemistry at Université Paris-Sud (now Paris-Saclay University; his dissertation was “Cristaux vitreux et transition vitreuse” (about glass crystals).[6] He was also a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh (1984–1985).[7]

Career

Alain Fuchs joined CNRS in 1985 as a research fellow. He became a research director in 1991. In 1995, he became chemistry professor at Université Paris-Sud. Between 2000 and 2005, he set up and directed the Laboratory of Physic Chemistry (UMR 8000) at Campus d'Orsay. He also worked as the President of the agrégation in chemistry from 1998 to 2001 and he directed the Section 13 of the Comité national de la recherche scientifique between 2004 and 2008. He was also Professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) in thermodynamics and statistical thermodynamics, intermolecular and surface forces, molecular simulation techniques, history of chemistry and physical chemistry. He served as the president of Chimie ParisTech from 2006 to 2010.

In January 2010, he was appointed President of the CNRS, succeeding Catherine Bréchignac (former President) d'Arnold Migus (former managing director).[8] [9] [10] Fuchs’s mandate ended in 2014. After holding the position in interim for one month],[11] he was appointed again by the Ministry of Higher Education.[12]

In October 2017, Fuchs quit the position of CNRS President and became the President of Université PSL (collegiate university including 9 members and 10 associate members).

Fields of research

His research activity is dedicated to the theory, modelling and molecular thermodynamics of fluids confined in various types of porous materials modeling and molecular simulation of confined fluids.[13] “Forced intrusion of water and aqueous solutions in microporous materials: from fundamental thermodynamics to energy storage devices”[14] (Chem. Soc. Rev.,46 (2017)) or “On the use of the IAST method for gas separation studies in porous materials with gate-opening behavior”[15] (Adsorption, 24 (2018)) are part of his last recent and major publications.

Alain Fuchs is a member of the Academia Europaea[16] and he was a member of the editorial board of the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

He co-authored two books:

Major works

Honors and awards

Notes and References

  1. News: Jacqué. Philippe. Un nouveau patron pour le CNRS. April 3, 2016. Le Monde. January 14, 2010.
  2. News: Anne Peyroche est nommée présidente du CNRS par intérim . CNRS . October 24, 2017 . 24 October 2017.
  3. ORDRE NATIONAL DU MÉRITE. Journal Officiel de la République Française. May 15, 2014. April 3, 2016.
  4. Web site: Alain Fuchs elected president of PSL PSL. www.univ-psl.fr. en. 2017-10-09.
  5. Web site: Alain Fuchs démissionne de la présidence de PSL- AEFinfo .
  6. Alain Fuchs Cristaux vitreux et transition vitreuse - Université Paris-Sud - 1983 – Doctoral advisor : Henri Szwarc - Dissertation number: 1983PA112380 - SUDOC website - Worldcat : 490643197
  7. French. Alain Fuchs, un pédagogue à la tête du CNRS. Jean-François Preveraud. 2015-02-18 . Industrie&technologies. 2015-04-23.
  8. News: French. Alain Fuchs : une nouvelle chimie pour le CNRS. Philippe Jacqué. Le Monde. 2010-01-21.
  9. Web site: French. Communiqué - Alain Fuchs est nommé président du CNRS. CNRS. 2010-01-20. 2015-04-08.
  10. Décret du 21 janvier 2010 portant nomination du président du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, JORF n°0018 du 22 janvier 2010 page 1427, texte n° 90
  11. Arrêté du 10 janvier 2014 portant attribution de fonctions au Centre national de la recherche scientifique, JORF n°0013 du 16 janvier 2014 page 760 texte n° 46
  12. Décret du 27 février 2014 portant nomination du président du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, JORF n°0050 du 28 février 2014 page 3943 texte n° 112
  13. Web site: french. Educpro. Alain Fuchs: Biography. 2017.
  14. Guillaume Fraux. François-Xavier Coudert. Anne Boutin. Alain Fuchs. Forced intrusion of water and aqueous solutions in microporous materials: from fundamental thermodynamics to energy storage devices. Chem. Soc. Rev.. 46. 7421–7437. 2017.
  15. Thomas D. Bennett. Anthony K. Cheetham. Alain H. Fuchs. François-Xavier Coudert. Interplay between defects, disorder and flexibility in metal-organic frameworks. Nature Chemistry. 2017. 9. 9. 11–16. 10.1038/nchem.2691. 27995920. 1904.09497. 2017NatCh...9...11B. 205297136.
  16. Web site: Alain H. Fuchs. Academia Europaea. 2015-03-23.
  17. Décret du 13 juillet 2010 portant promotion et nomination, JORF n°0161 du 14 juillet 2010 page 13049, texte n° 4
  18. Web site: French. Ordre national du mérite - décret du 14 mai 2014. Légion d'honneur. 2014-05-15. 2015-04-08.
  19. Web site: French. Alain Fuchs reçoit les insignes d'Officier de l'Ordre national du Québec des mains du Premier Ministre du Québec. CNRS. 2014-11-07. 2015-04-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20181026182706/http://www.cnrs.fr/derci/spip.php?article827. 26 October 2018. dead.

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