Michael Matlosz, distinguished professor of chemical engineering at the University of Lorraine (Nancy, France), began a four-year term of office as President of EuroScience, the European Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology, in July 2018.
More recently, Michael served from 2014 to 2017 as President and Chief Executive Officer of the French National Research Agency (ANR) in Paris. An elected member of the National Academy of Technologies of France since 2011, he was also President of Science Europe, the Brussels-based advocacy association for European research performing and research funding organisations.
Michael holds a BS degree in chemical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a PhD in electrochemical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley (USA). He began his professional research career in 1985 in the department of materials science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, prior to his appointment in 1993 as a university professor of chemical process engineering at the University of Lorraine.