CURRICULUM VITAE

MICHEL SPIRO DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: 24 FEBRUARY 1946 IN ROANNE,

1966 Degree in engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique

1969 Graduate diploma (DEA) in Theory and begins working at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

1976 PhD thesis in physical sciences at the CEA Saclay Centre (experiment in bubble chambers on the discovery of K*(1780) at 14 GeV/c)

1977 - 1984 His initial research in particle physics led him to participate in the discovery of intermediary in the UA1 experiment at CERN -head of construction, operation and calibration of the UA1 electromagnetic calorimeter UA1 (gondolas) -discovery of intermediary W boson using missing energy method -critical analysis of monojet events (unsigned author) -presented discovery of W at the Cornell lepton photon conference (1983)

1983 Joliot-Curie Prize from the French Physical Society (SFP)

1983 - 1999 Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique (quantitative mechanics, then stellar equilibrium and evolution and finally energy and environment)

1984 - 1988 President of the Particle Physics Department of SFP

1985 Thibaud Prize from the Lyon Academy of Sciences

1985 - 1998 Gallium Experiment (GALLEX) for detecting solar neutrinos - responsible for source of neutrinos from radioactive chromium for calibrating GALLEX radiochemicals - significant contribution to analysis leading to measurement of a deficit in the number of solar neutrinos by factor of two

1986 Author of La Matière-Espace-Temps (Space-Time-Matter) with Gilles Cohen- Tannoudji (Editions Fayard)

1988 Prize from the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for this work

Since 1990 “Brown Dwarfs” experiment, now called EROS - This experiment detected the first evidence for gravitational microlensing by dark objects in the halo of our galaxy. These objects represent only 20% of the dark matter in the galactic halo - I was the initiator and spokesman for this experiment

1990 - 1992 Taught cosmology for the masters (DEA) in theoretical physics in Paris 1991 - 1999 Head of the Department of Particle Physics at the CEA Saclay Centre

1992 First GALLEX results

1993 - 2000 Head of section on unification of fundamental interactions at CEA

1993 First EROS results on the detection of dark objects using gravitational microlensing

1994 GALLEX calibration using chromium source

1994 Publication of Le temps et sa flèche (Time and its arrow) with Etienne Klein

1995 Author of La Lumière des Neutrinos (The light of neutrinos) with Michel Cribier and Daniel Vignaud (Editions du Seuil)

1995 Philip Morris Prize shared with M. Cribier and D. Vignaud for solar neutrinos (GALLEX)

1995-1998 Member of CERN's (LHC) Committee

1996 Director of the INCineration by Accelerator (INCA) project for transmuting actinides using hybrid reactors at the CEA’s Directorate for the Science of Matter (DSM)

1996 Rapporteur on astroparticles at the plenary session of the Rochester international conference in Warsaw

1997 Rapporteur on astroparticles at the plenary session of the Rochester international conference in Warsaw

1998 -2001 Named president of the experiments committee of CERN’s Large Electron and Positron (LEP) collider for 1998-2001 and consequently member of CERN’s Research Board and its scientific policy committee

1999 Editor of Astroparticle Physics review

1999 Félix Robin Prize from the French Physical Society for my body of work (UA1, GALLEX and EROS)

July 1999 Completed term as head of particle physics department

1999 - 2002 Appointed mission officer for astroparticles and neutrinos by DSM and French National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (CNRS/IN2P3) – Appointed deputy scientific director of IN2P3

2000 Secretary of the high energy physics division of the European Physical Society (elected President in 2001)

2000 Prize for French Contribution to Science from the International Reality and Relations Association (ARRI)

2000 - 2002 Advisor to the High Commissioner for Atomic Energy

Late 2000 Important role as LEPC president in decision to terminate work on LEP 2001-2006 Member of the Nikhef / FOM scientific committee (Amsterdam)

2001 - 2002 President of the high energy physics division of the European Physical Society Member by invitation to the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) Advisor to the High Commissioner for Atomic Energy

2002 - 2003 Head of CEA’s Department of Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Associated Instrumentation (DAPNIA)

2002 Conclusion at the 2002 International Conference on Neutrinos

2002 - 2003 Member of CERN’s Scientific Policy Committee (SPC)

2003- 2010 Director of IN2P3 at CNRS

2003 - French scientific delegate to CERN Council

2003 - Member of Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC ) world forum

2004 – President of CNRS’ TGE/TGI committee

2004 President of the Astroparticle visiting committee for the Helmholtz Centre

2004 Knight in the Order of the

2005 Author of a textbook published by Springer, Fundamentals in Nuclear Physics (course at Ecole Polytechnique) with J.L. Basdevant and J. Rich

2007 - 2008 President of ILL Council for a year

2008 - President of Appec, Astroparticle Physics European Coordination Head of working group for the OECD's MEGASCIENCE forum

Officer in the National Order of Merit

Author of Particules élémentaires et cosmologie: les lois ultimes? (Elementary particles and cosmology: ultimate laws?) with Gilles Cohen-Tannoudji (Editions Le Pommier)

2009 Member of the Harvard University Physics Department visiting committee

Author with Gabriel Chardin of Le LHC peut-il produire des trous noirs? (Can the LHC produce black holes?) (Editions Le pommier)

President of CERN’s working group on geographic and scientific enlargement

December 2009 elected president of CERN Council