Fabrice André, Alain Aspect, Hugo Duminil-Copin and Pascale Senellart made permanent members of the Presidential Scientific Advisory Committee

Fabrice André has been a Gustave Roussy Research Director since 2020, and is a medical oncologist specialising in breast cancer and a professor of medicine at Université Paris-Saclay. His work combines various complementary areas of oncology research, from basic to clinical research, bioinformatics and biotechnology. He coordinates three projects: the CANTO cohort study, RHU MyProbe, and PRISM, financed by the French government investment programme - Investissements d’avenir. Fabrice André has also been listed as the one of the world’s most Highly Cited Researchers according to the Web of Science Group for several years.

Hugo Duminil-Copin is a French mathematician specialising in probability theory and a professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) since 2016. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022. His work focuses on the mathematical branch of statistical physics. He studies phase transitions, i.e. sudden changes in the properties of matter, and uses probability theory to analyse mathematical models which describe physical phenomena, such as magnetisation, polymers and material porosity.

Alain Aspect is a physicist specialising in quantum physics and laureate of the Nobel Prize for Physics 2022. He is a professor at Institut d’Optique Graduate School (Université Paris-Saclay), an affiliate professor at ENS Paris-Saclay, an associate professor at École polytechnique, and an Emeritus CNRS research director at the Charles Fabry Laboratory (LCF – Univ. Paris-Saclay/Institut d’Optique Graduate School/CNRS). His pioneering work in quantum entanglement has paved the way for quantum technology today. Alain Aspect is also the cofounder of Pasqal, a start-up specialised in quantum computing.

Pascale Senellart Mardon is a physicist specialising in quantum mechanics, and a CNRS research director at the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (C2N – Univ. Paris-Saclay/CNRS/Univ. Paris-Cité). She has been a member of the French Academy of Science since 19 December 2022. Her work focuses on the interaction between solid-state physics, quantum optics and nanotechnologies. In 2017, she cofounded the start-up Quandela, which creates and markets the unique photon sources she developed, to support the development of light-based quantum technologies. Today, Quandela develops and markets the world’s first light-based quantum calculators.