Alain H. Fuchs#

• 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 - 1999 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 - 1985 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

• Theoretical chemistry

• 1983 PhD in physical chemistry, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
• 1975 Chemical engineer, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
• 1996 Chevalier des Palmes Académiques
• 2006 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• 2010 Knight of the Legion of Honour
• 2014 Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur
• 2014 Officer of the National Order of Quebec

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