Governance

The Institute Council ensures that AMUtech runs smoothly. It monitors missions, field or strategic changes and conducts the annual assessment of the institute’s actions. It is made up of members with advisory capacity and those entitled to vote, meeting at least twice a year.

The Scientific committee helps to implement activities by providing operational and strategic support. The members meet twice a year to decide on and evaluate actions, participate in drawing up the institute’s policy, advise the executive office and evaluate and select the awardees of the call for research proposals.

Current composition:

13 representatives from 9 of the institute’s partner laboratories. 

The Training Committee’s (Master’s working group, PhD programme and seminars) missions include:

• Decide on and evaluate training actions
• Participate in the reflection and implementation of actions (Master’s, PhD, seminars and other training courses)
• Advise the institute’s office

Members:

8 members from the institute’s laboratories and from training programmes within the AMUtech scope

The Advisory Board is an important strategic committee. It is made up of representatives from the advisory boards of the research units and the institutions to which the faculties and schools are affiliated, and meets annually.

The Advisory Board’s missions are:

• Approve the guidelines and their annual update
• Issue opinions and recommendations concerning the coherence between the guidelines and the budget

• Validate investments for year n+1

  Members:

  
  •    AMU: Mr Stefan Enoch (Chief Representative)
  -    CEA: Mr Olivier Provitina (Chief Representative)
  -    CNRS: Mr Jean-François Gerard (Chief Representative)
  -    ECM: Mr Miguel Alonso (Chief Representative)

The Scientific and Training Advisory Board – STAB - is made up of external experts who represent the institute’s strategies and fields of research. The main roles of the STAB consist in providing strategic advice on the planning and carrying out of the institute’s missions, and in proposing recommendations regarding the institute’s annual activity report.

Composition:

• Antoine Baceiredo, CNRS Research Director, Director of the Toulouse Chemistry Institute, Paul Sabatier University - Toulouse, France.
• Henri Cramail, Professor, Head of the Biopolymers and bio-sourced polymers team, University of Bordeaux - France.
• Eugen Rabkin, Professor, Head of the Solid State Thermodynamics Laboratory, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Haifa, Israel.
• Sylvie Rousset, CNRS Research Director, Director of the CNRS Scientific and Technical Information Department, Université Paris Diderot - France.
• Isabelle Sagnes, CNRS Research Director, coordinator of RENATECH (French national nanofabrication network), Université Paris Saclay - France.
• Patrik Schmuki, Professor, Chair of Surface and Corrosion Sciences, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg - Germany.