Antoine
Petit,
Chairman and CEO of CNRS
Antoine
Petit
Chairman and CEO of CNRS Exceptional grade university professor A. Petit was appointed Chairman and CEO of the CNRS in 2018. After earning a teaching degree and a PhD in computer science from the Université Paris Diderot, he specialized in formal methods, mostly based on transition systems, for the specification and verification of parallel systems in real time. An academic from 1984 to 2004, he served at the Université d'Orléans, the Université Paris-Sud and at the ENS Cachan (near Paris) from 1994. From 2001 to 2003, Antoine Petit was deputy director of the French Research Ministry's Research Department. In 2004, he joined the CNRS, as scientific director of the Information and Communication Science and Technologies Department, before becoming inter-regional director for South West France. In 2006, he joined the French National Inria as head of the Paris-Rocquencourt research center. He was named Chairman and CEO of the Inria in 2014.
Chairman and CEO of CNRS Exceptional grade university professor A. Petit was appointed Chairman and CEO of the CNRS in 2018. After earning a teaching degree and a PhD in computer science from the Université Paris Diderot, he specialized in formal methods, mostly based on transition systems, for the specification and verification of parallel systems in real time. An academic from 1984 to 2004, he served at the Université d'Orléans, the Université Paris-Sud and at the ENS Cachan (near Paris) from 1994. From 2001 to 2003, Antoine Petit was deputy director of the French Research Ministry's Research Department. In 2004, he joined the CNRS, as scientific director of the Information and Communication Science and Technologies Department, before becoming inter-regional director for South West France. In 2006, he joined the French National Inria as head of the Paris-Rocquencourt research center. He was named Chairman and CEO of the Inria in 2014.