The future Minister mentor work that will lead to his Ph

The former CEO of the Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (Ifremer) pantoufle in Total This may come as a surprise. But good Cartesian, Jean-François Minster, fifty-six years, aligns the arguments for demonstrate you by A B that his appointment as Director scientific of the oil company has surprisingly, on the contrary. Constant concern for the environment, permanent innovation, investments in renewable energy: since that he visited the subsidiaries and the Group platforms, he said simply "admiring".

War of Chiefs

Very much indeed, the idea of joining the world of enterprise "long"on my it head. After twenty years of public and ten years of research management research, il had desire to discover another world. And also, perhaps, be immune to the vagaries of politics who him played more than one wrong turn in recent months. Despite his good record at the head of Ifremer, this recognized oceanographer, author of several books on the subject ("Oceans" in 1994, "The Machine Ocean" in 1997), was not renewed in its functions, in March 2005, at the end of his term of five years. He bounces at the CNRS, a House that he is familiar for in the Department of sciences of the universe from 1996 to 2000. Las! Bombed "General Editor" a position created for the occasion he will hardly have time to tackle the work of decompartmentalization of the vessel Admiral of the French research given to him by the Director General of the Centre, Bernard Larrouturou: in early 2006, chiefs war between him and President, Bernard Meunier leads to the replacement of the tandem by Catherine Bréchignac... and the departure of Jean-François Minstereight months after his arrival.

Irony of fate: this is another victim of the politics that put the foot the bracket out of Polytechnique, in 1973. After having fondled the idea started in glaciology son of a high mountain guide, grew up in the Chamonix Valley , a researcher in the grass will indeed find Claude Allègre at the Institute of Physics of the globe (IPG). The future Minister mentor work that will lead to his Ph.d. on radioactive elements in meteorites and the Earth's mantle geochemistry. Two fields in which it could continue to conduct research all his life, was his taste for change: "whenever, by publishing a scientific paper, I felt me quote myself, I thought to myself:"Beware, you soggy round"", he recalled. Over the years, Jean-François Minster, who believes all told his students he coached or co-encadré 23 theses that of his teachers, was interested in many subjects, from the polar cap to the ocean biosphere, volcanoes and carbon cycles. And the structures that he himself had brought on baptismal fonts, such as the laboratory of physics and chemistry of the hydrosphere, created in the IPG in 1981, or even the laboratory of Oceanography and Geophysics of Toulouse, founded in 1985, six years before that it takes the direction of the Institute of sciences of the Earth from the same city.