Joël Bertrand , Chief Research Officer, CNRS
Joël Bertrand holds an engineer degree and a master’s degree in Economic Sciences.
He held a Ph.D in engineering from the Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse in 1977 and a doctorat ès sciences in Chemical Engineering in 1983.
Joël Bertrand was awarded the Bronze medal of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1986. He was appointed Director of the Laboratory of Chemical Engineering in Toulouse in 2001, and then director of the Réseau Thématique de Recherche Avancée (Thematic Network for Advanced Research (RTRA): " Aeronautics and Space Science and Technology " in 2007.
From 1996 to 2005, he served as the Scientific Coordinator for the French-Mexican Postgraduate Collaborative Program “PCP” in Engineering Sciences and ICT funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
From 2004 to 2008, he served as the President of the Evaluation Committee in Fluid and reactive media: transport, transfer, transform processes.
He became the Vice-President of the French Society of Process Engineering in 2007.
Joël Bertrand was appointed Chief Research Officer of the CNRS on February 25, 2010.
Joël Bertrand assists the President of CNRS in defining the scientific policy of the organization. He is coordinating the scientific activities of the 10 CNRS Institutes. He is also in charge of developing interdisciplinary approaches and partnerships.