Michael Matlosz appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer of ANR

Professor Michael Matlosz has been appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer of the French National Research Agency (ANR). A member of the National Academy of Technologies of France and a PhD holder from the department of chemical engineering of the University of California, Berkeley, Prof. Matlosz was previously the Deputy Scientific Director General at the French agency. He succeeds Pascale Briand who has held the position of Director General since January 2012.

Michael Matlosz began his professional research career in the department of materials science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne (Switzerland) from 1985 to 1993, where he worked on processing technologies for electroplating and metal surface finishing. He was appointed university professor of process engineering at the National School for Advanced Study of the Chemical Industries (ENSIC) in Nancy (France) in 1993.

A specialist in the application of microtechnology for performance enhancement in chemical production, from 2005 to 2009 Prof. Matlosz initiated and directed for CNRS (France) the major European research initiative entitled IMPULSE. It involved 20 academic and industrial partners from eight European countries, and centered around innovation in production processes for the chemical industries. With a €17 million budget and €10.5 million in funding from the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP6), the IMPULSE project enabled researchers to capitalise on technological advances in Europe in the field of microstructured processes. In June 2012, the European Commission named the IMPULSE project the “best industrial technology project” of FP5, FP6 and FP7.
A member of the European Technology Platform for sustainable chemistry “SusChem” since 2005 and a distinguished professor in process engineering at ENSIC-Nancy, he was Director of ENSIC-Nancy from 2006 to 2011. He joined the ANR in 2012 as the head of the Department of Emerging and Exploratory Research. Prof. Matlosz was then appointed ANR’s Deputy Scientific Director General in April 2014. His appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of the French agency results from the decree of 24th March 2014 which consolidates the missions of ANR and establishes a new governance.

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Last updated on 21 March 2019