Arnaud Tourin appointed Vice-President for Research, Sciences & Society at PSL
The PSL Board of Administrators, meeting on June 30, 2022, confirmed the appointment of Arnaud Tourin, Professor at l'ESPCI Paris - PSL, to the position of Vice-President for for Research, Sciences & Society of PSL. He took up his post on July 1st.
Arnaud Tourin holds a PhD in physics from the Université Paris Cité and is a professor at the ESPCI Paris-PSL. He was deputy director (2009-2013) and then director (2014-2022) of the Institut Langevin, a laboratory dedicated to waves that combines, in a very multidisciplinary spirit, fundamental physics, instrumental developments and business creation. He was a member of the National Council of Universities (2007-2010) and a member of the National Committee for Scientific Research (2012-2016). His research focuses on wave propagation in complex media, with contributions in the fields of ultrasound, microwaves and geophysics. He has co-authored more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings and books. He is co-inventor of 6 patents and co-founder of Time Reversal Communications. With three of his colleagues, he was awarded the Diderot Innovation Prize in 2007. He joined the executive committee of PSL as Vice President for Research and Outreach in July 2022.
Arnaud Tourin is holding this position after Rémi Carminati, Professor at ESPCI Paris - PSL and now general executive at the Institut d'Optique Graduate School, spent two years (2020-2022) as Vice-President for for Research, Sciences & Society of PSL