Activity Report 2010 - CNRS

OVERVIEW
2010 Full-time Chair of Excellence
The first laureate got an excellent rating.
Max HOFHEINZ (Quantum Optics, THz) is
the fourth scientist to come on full time
basis with the Nanosciences Foundation’s
support. He is presently admitted to
compete for the final step in the 2011
junior ERC call. The commitment of CEA
is strong: in case of success he will
obtain a permanent position within his
three-years stay at the Nanosciences
Foundation.
2010 Part-time Chairs of Excellence
The four part-time Chairs are all from
USA, working at prestigious universities:
Harold BARANGER is from Duke
University, David GRAVES from Berkeley
UC, Juan Min ZUO is Professor at Urbana
Champaign University of Illinois, and
Yoshio NISHI is from Stanford University
with a long experience in high tech
companies, starting at Toshiba (for 23
years), then at Hewlett Packard (for 10
years as Director of research), then
Texas Instrument (7 years as Senior VP
and Director of R&D until 2002 when he
joined Stanford University).
Fig.1: The Nanosciences Foundation’s Chairs of Excellence and their University of origin
The 2009 Chairs of Excellence program had allowed recruiting on a part-time basis
three North-American laureates, from University of Montreal, Stanford University and
NREL.
This world map displaying the photos of laureates pinned in accordance with their
University of origin clearly evidences the dominant flow of North American applications
in response of the Foundation’s Chairs of Excellence programs.
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