Jérôme Durand-LoseDeputy scientific director for Europe and International

Professor Jérôme Durand-Lose has been appointed Deputy scientific director for Europe and International at CNRS Informatics in May 2024.

He is a former student of the École normale supérieure de Lyon. He completed a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Bordeaux I in 1996 and obtained his Habilitation to supervise PhD (HDR) in 2003 from the University of Nice. In 2002, he was a CNRS delegation member at the Laboratoire de l'informatique du parallélisme (LIP - CNRS/ENS de Lyon/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) for two years. In 2004, Jérôme Durand-Lose became professor at the University of Orléans and a member of the Laboratoire d'informatique fondamentale d'Orléans (LIFO). From 2010 to 2016, he was director of LIFO. In 2013, he joined the French Computer Science Society, where he became Vice President of Research in 2016 for two years. He again joined the CNRS for one year in 2017 at the Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’École polytechnique (LIX - CNRS/Institut Polytechnique de Paris). He acted as interim deam, chaired conference programs and served in various commissions. 

His research interests focus on the frontiers of computation, particularly unconventional models of computation.