Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Philippe Gillet, director of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research cabinet becomes EPFL’s vice-president for education and research 1 April 2010. He replaces Giorgio Margaritondo, who has held the post for six years and who will return to teaching and research at the polytechnic institute.

Gillet, 51 and a native of Strasbourg, France, is a graduate of the Normale supérieure de Paris (Ulm), 1979, with a doctorate in geophysics. His specialties are the formation of mountain chains, the Alps in particular, and extreme pressure and temperature conditions found within planets. He was named director of the Ecole Normale Supérieure at Lyon in 2003, and in 2007 he became the director of the cabinet of Valerie Pecresse, French minister of Higher Education and Research. He has been involvd in the ministry’s  reforms, including university autonomy, research and the elaboration of a national strategy for research and innovation.

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