First created in Dec.2000, the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF) is now a public establishment reporting to the Minister for Higher Education and Research. The current President is Bruno REVELLIN-FALCOZ. The NATF is a benchmarking institution and a privileged intermediary between the worlds of research and the socio-economic actors for all questions appertaining to technology and its interactions with Society. There are 265 Fellows to date – research scientists, engineers, industrialists, agronomists, economists, medical practitioners, architects, sociologists … and together the Fellows analyse and make proposals in regards to the majors challenges we are facing today.
“The NATF Fellows are elected from the ranks of candidates who are all high level personalities, capable of providing the highest levels of competence not only in various technology intensive areas but also in regard to the processes related to technologies, to research and its applications, R&D financing, dissemination of technology related information under the economic, social and cultural aspects”*
Cf. para.1 of the NATF statutory Charter.


Fellows elected in 2010
(in alphabetical order)
More … mini-bios (in French for the moment)

Prof. Alain BERTHOZ, honorary professor at the Collège de France.

Christian de BOISSIEU, Président du Conseil d’analyse Economique (CAE), Professeur à l’Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbon

Jean BOTTI, Senior Director for Technology and Innovation, EADS, Member of the Executive Board, EADS, N.V.

Alain BUGAT, President of NucAdvisor

Philippe BUSQUIN, Minister of State (Belgium) former European Commissioner for Research

Prof. Jean-Lou CHAMEAU, President of Caltech (USA)

Denis CLODIC, President of ERIE, emeritus Research Director for the Energy Centre at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (ENSMP)

Alice DAUTRY, Director General of the Institut Pasteur

Prof. Esther DUFLO, Professor of economics at MIT (USA), Director of the Laboratory for Action against Poverty

Daniel FAVRAT, Director of the Industrial Energy Laboratory (LENI) of the European Research Institute of Atlas Copco (CERAC SA)

Prof. Yves LEVI, Health Environment at the University Paris Sud- Faculty of Pharmaceutical studies

Didier ROUX, Director of Research and Innovation with the Group Saint-Gobain

Elie SAHEB, Executive Vice-President (Technology), Hydro-Québec (Canada)

Jean-Michel SEVERINO, Inspector general , former Former Director General for AFD
Prof. Pierre TOULHOAT, Director for Scientific Affairs at INERIS, Director at the Institut for Analytical Sciences adjunct professor at the University of Lyon 1

Joint Report by the Frnch Academy of Science and the NATF 

"Metallurgy, science and engineering"

14/01/2011

Biennial Report on Science and Technology N°31 [RST reports, decided initiated in 1998]
Éditions EDP Sciences – January, 2011 - 27,00 €

Moderators:

Prof. Yves QUERE, Member of the French Academy of Sciences and Prof. André PINEAU, NATF Fellow

Résumé

If we can readily agree that the metallurgical industries are inevitably being reorganised into ‘world class’ sized entities, we must also do everything in our power to prevent this global trend weakening France’s position in this key sector. If the major French actors in the metallurgical sector cannot continue as they were able to do to recently, to draw on the excellent results of French public R&D and higher education schemes, they will simply move elsewhere, outside France.

What would be worse in this event would be a loss of ‘substance’ that would seriously penalise France's SME companies.

The National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF) and the French Academy of Sciences have decided to present their joint analysis of the current status in France, drafted by a group of experts moderated by Prof. André PINEAU, NATF Fellow and Prof. Yves QUERE, Member of the Academy of Sciences.

The analysis, which is a synthetic overview, completed with several digitised appendices, gives a first description of Metallurgy as a science, i.e., a science per se, with strong links to the engineering science, viz., metallurgical engineering. The joint academic group then establishes a status diagnosis, not only for the major industrial sectors concerned but also in the area of Research and Higher Education. The ambition we could entertain is that Metallurgy is recognised as a scientific speciality per se, among the numerous other fields in Industry where metallurgy is a source for progress and a reservoir for future employment; and likewise to draw attention to the fact that it takes time to build up the competences, whether scientific or technical, that can be destroyed so easily.

The Report also shows how Metallurgy in France has lost a large part of its substance, partly because of the multiple recent industrial reorganisation schemes and partly because the academic world is no longer attracted to this area, because metallurgy is not seen as “fashionable”. Urgent measures need to be taken in higher education and industrial research, in correctly informing the public at large, or making the actors and the policy makers aware of the issue at stake.

Given the seriousness of the trends observed, that impact notably and negatively on employment, on skills reservoirs, on R&D, … the two Academies propose that public and private policy makers adopt a strategy that the authors set out in a set of recommendations: the current status is given for each domain along with the directions that could be chosen to ensure scientific and applied development.

Were France to forego its pole position in Metallurgy would be dangerous; to seek to become a leader is a challenge that lies before us. We are now at this cross-road – and probably ‘condemned’ to succeed. 

 

>To order the full report (in French)
EDP Sciences
17, av. du Hoggar
P.A. de Courtabœuf
BP 11291944 Les Ulis Cedex A
Tél. : (+33) 1 69 18 75 75; Fax : (+33)1 69 86 06 78

 

Press release                                                                   

 Bruno REVELLIN-FALCOZ, graduate in aeronautical engineering, former Vice-President and Deputy CEO of Dassault Aviation Corp., has been elected as President of the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF) for a two-year term of office [2011-2012]; he replaces Prof. Alain POMPIDOU [2009-2010].

The newly elected Vice-President is Gérard ROUCAIROL, Former Scientific Director for the French computer science and engineering group Bull.

Born April 23, 1941, Bruno REVELLIN-FALCOZ graduated from the Ecole nationale supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ENSAE) in 1964, and, with a pre-contract in hand, as of 1963, with Dassault Aviation, he was recuited to their Design Office in 1966.

He was appointed Senior Technical Manager and Director General in 1982 and carried the responsibility of all Dassault’s civilian and military aeronautical and space programmes (the fighter aircraft family MIRAGE 2000 and RAFALE, the FALCON line up to and including the Falcon 7X.
Throughout his career, Bruno REVELLIN-FALCOZ set up and built on partnerships with various public R&RD laboratories in order to develop co-operation leading to industrial applications.

Vice-President and Deputy CEO of Dassault Aviation Corp., over the period 2000-2006, Bruno REVELLIN-FALCOZ left his seat on the Board in 2008, after 15 years with the Company. Elected Fellow to the NATF [March, 2005], he was now in a position to invest a lot of time in academic affairs [on Council notably]and was elected Vice-President in 2009. Bruno REVELLIN-FALCOZ is also a Member of the Academy of Astronautics and of the French National Acadmy of Air and Space. He is also a member of the Defence Minister’s Science Council and of the French Parliamentary Office for Assessment of Scientific and Technological Policy Decisions

 Press Officer: Catherine Côme

Tél. : (+33) 1 53 85 44 30 - catherine.come@academie-technologies.fr