Jean Daillant nominated new Director General of SOLEIL

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Published on 02 May 2011

Congratulations to Prof Jean Daillant, member of the EPJ Steering Committee, on his recent appointment as Director General of SOLEIL, the French national synchrotron facility.

Since 2004, Jean Daillant has been Director of the LIONS laboratory (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire sur l’Organisation Nanométrique et Supramoléculaire), which forms part of CEA-IRAMIS (Institut Rayonnement-Matière de Saclay).

As a materials physicist, he has been interested in synchrotron radiation since his PhD years at the Université Paris-Sud 11, where he developed X-ray techniques to study polymers. He joined the CEA in 1989 and became Head of the Soft Matter and Interfaces group a few years before becoming joint director of LURE, from 1999 to 2003.

Jean Daillant’s involvement with the European Physical Journal dates back to 1995, when he started to serve as Associate Editor of the Journal de Physique II. From 1998 to 2010 he continued his editorial role with EPJB. Since October 2010 he represents the French Physical Society (SFP) in the EPJ Steering Committee.

Jean Daillant is an expert on synchrotron radiation and in 2009 he co-edited a book on X-ray and neutron reflectivity". Between 2006 and 2010 he headed SOLEIL’s Scientific Council. He will succeed Michel van der Rest as Director General this summer.