Jean-Luc Sida is appointed Deputy Director of INSTN

Jean-Luc Sida is appointed Deputy Director of INSTN - the French National Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology - on the 1st of November 2019.

Ph. Doctor in nuclear physics for experimental work on fission on the reactor of the Laue-Langevin Institute (Grenoble, France), Jean-Luc Sida joined the CEA in 1989. He passed his Authorization to supervise PhDs (HDR) at the University Paris-Diderot in 2005 after having supervised more than 10 theses. He then took over responsibility for the Nuclear Physics Department of the Military Application Division (DAM), while teaching in the NPAC Master's degree (Nuclei, Particles, Astrophysics and Cosmology), common to the universities of Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne and Paris-Saclay.

From 2012 to 2017, he was Deputy Director of Material Sciences and then Deputy Director of Fundamental Research at CEA. He was in charge of communication for the Materials Science Division (DSM then DRF - Fundamental Research Division). Since 2017, he had been working on the development of the image of scientific excellence at the University of Paris-Saclay while continuing theoretical work on the fission process.