Philippe Gillet- Curriculum Vitae#
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Undergraduate studies (1979-1983) at Ecole normale supérieure de la rue d'Ulm
- PhD thesis in Geophysics and Geochemistry (1983) defended at Université de Paris VII
- State thesis in Geosciences (1988) defended at Université de Rennes 1
EMPLOYEMENT
- April 2010- : FuII—professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- 1992 to April 2010: Full-professor of Earth Sciences at the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon
- 1988 - 1992: Full-professor of geophysics at Université de Rennes 1
- 1984 - 1988 : Assistant-professor at Université de Rennes 1
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (Recent)
- April 2010 - : Vice-president (provost) of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne(Switzerland)
- May 2007 to April 2010: Chief of Staff of the French Minister of Higher Education and Research.
- 2003-2007: Director of the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon.
- 2006-2007: President of the French National Science Foundation.
- 2004-2007: President of the University of Lyon.
- 2001-2007: President of the French synchrotron facility SOLEIL.
- 2003-2007: Member of the advisory council of the French Insitute of Petroleum.
- 2000-2003: Director of the Institut des Sciences de |'Univers (CNRS).
- 1998-2002: Dean of studies at the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon.
- 2000-2001: President of the scientific advisory committee of the French program of
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Planetology.
- Mineral Physics at extreme pressure and temperature conditions with applications to the study of the deep planetary interiors: Earth and Mars
- Study of meteorites (Martian and lunar) and Planetary Dusts (Stardust mission)
- Shock processes in planetary materials
- Interactions between bacteria and minerals
- Solid to glass transition under pressure
- Experimental techniques: laser-heated diamond anvil cell, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction with synchrotron facilities, electron microscopy
PUBLICATIONS
- Publications: more than 120 scientific articles in international journals including : 9 articles in Science, 2 in Nature, 3 in Proceedings of the Nati0naIAcademy ofSciences of the USA, 81 articles in earth and planetaryjournals and 15 articles in physics or chemistry journals
- PhD supervision: 17 students
HONORS and AWARDS
- Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (1993-1998)
- Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Montréal
