!!Philippe Gillet- Curriculum Vitae
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__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
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__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
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__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
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__RESEARCH INTERESTS__
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*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
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__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
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__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
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