The French National Centre for Scientific Research is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
Chris Moulin is professor at the Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, Université Grenoble Alpes, and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
Michel Maffesoli is a French sociologist.
Jean-Michel Coron is a French mathematician. He first studied at École Polytechnique, where he worked on his PhD thesis advised by Haïm Brezis. Since 1992, he has studied the control theory of partial differential equations, and which includes both control and stabilization. His results concern partial differential equations related to fluid dynamics, with emphasis on nonlinear phenomena, and part of them found applications to control channels.
Georges Calas is professor of mineralogy (Emeritus) at Sorbonne Université and an honorary Senior Member of University Institute of France.
The Association française pour l'information scientifique or AFIS is an association regulated by the French law of 1901, founded under the leadership of Michel Rouzé in November 1968. As a skeptical organisation, it has been a member of the European Council of Skeptical Organisations since 2001, and publishes the magazine Science et pseudo-sciences.
The Teissier affair was a controversy that occurred in France in 2001. French astrologer Élizabeth Teissier was awarded a doctorate in sociology by Paris Descartes University for a doctoral thesis in which she argued that astrology was being oppressed by science. Her work was contested by the scientific community within the context of the science wars, and compared to the Sokal hoax. Criticisms included the alleged failure to work within the field of sociology and also lacking the necessary scientific rigour for a doctoral thesis in any scientific field. The university and jury who awarded the degree were harshly criticised, though both they and Teissier had supporters and defenders.
Hippolyte d'Albis is a French economist, born November 24, 1973, in London, specializing in demographic issues. He is a professor at Pantheon-Sorbonne University and the Paris School of Economics. He is Deputy Director for Science at the CNRS Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities in charge of research in economics, management, geography and regional studies and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France and the Cercle des économistes.
Eric Vivier is a French professor of immunology at Aix-Marseille and hospital practitioner at Marseille Public University Hospital. He is also Chief Scientific Officer at Innate Pharma, coordinator of the Marseille Immunopôle immunology cluster, and president of the Paris-Saclay Cancer Cluster. Vivier has published more than 300 scientific articles and is on the editorial boards of many peer-reviewed journals. He serves on the expert panel of the European Research Council and the comity of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Michel Davier is a French physicist.
Marc Fontecave is a French chemist. An international specialist in bioinorganic chemistry, he currently teaches at the Collège de France in Paris, where he heads the Laboratory of Chemistry of Biological Processes.
Jean-Claude Weill, is a French biologist, immunologist and member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Cathérine Cécile Picart is a French biophysicist and bioengineer. She is the Head of the Department of Health at CEA Grenoble in the area of fundamental research, a professor at the Institut polytechnique de GrenobleÉcole nationale supérieure de physique, électronique, matériaux (PHELMA) and researcher at the Laboratoire des Matériaux et du Génie Physique (LMGP).
Ariane Mézard is a French mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Sorbonne University who works in arithmetic geometry.
Rémi Abgrall is a French applied mathematician. He is known for his contributions in computational fluid dynamics, numerical analysis of conservation laws, multiphase flow and Hamilton–Jacobi equations. He has been editor in chief of the Journal of Computational Physics since 2015 and is part of the editorial board of several international scientific journals. In 2014 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematics in Seoul. He is author of more than 100 scientific papers published in international scientific journals. He is editor of 4 books and author of one book on advanced topics concerning computational fluid dynamics, high-resolution schemes and conservation laws.
Louis Fensterbank is a French scientist specialized in molecular chemistry. Professor at Sorbonne University and Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France, he has been the director of the Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire since 2017.
Liliane Léger née Quercy is a French physicist. Her research considers polymers and the molecular mechanisms of adhesion. She was awarded the Groupe Français d’Études et d’Applications des Polymères Prix d’Honneur in 2021.
Agnès Bernet, is a French cell biologist and professor of cancer biology at the University Claude Bernard Lyon I. A co-founder of NETRIS Pharma, she has led within the Laboratory of Apoptosis, Cancer and Development, the research team that validated the use of interference ligand/dependence receptors as novel targeted therapies for cancer.
Christiane Marchello-Nizia is a French linguist who specializes in the history of the French language. She was professor at the École normale supérieure de Lyon and Director of the Institute for French Linguistics until her retirement in 2006.
Marie-Françoise André, born 21 November 1953 in Paris, is a French geographer and geomorphologist specialising in the study of landscape architecture in the polar regions. She applies her knowledge of stone erosion in the field of heritage preservation, particularly in Angkor. Her research was awarded the silver medal from CNRS, the French national centre for scientific research.
