Michel Campillo elected member of the French Académie des Sciences

Translated from article Univ. Grenoble Alpes

**Following elections opened in 2019, the French Académie des Sciences has just elected 18 new members. Among them, for the section of sciences of the universe, Michel Campillo, professor at the University Grenoble Alpes and seismologist at the Institute of Earth Sciences.


A second election session, due to be completed in the first quarter of 2020, will elect, in addition to these 18 new members, four academicians to posts with targeted themes. These results will soon be ratified by official decree of the President of the Republic. The reception ceremony for the newly elected members will take place on Tuesday 2 June 2020, under the dome of the Institut de France.

The Académie des Sciences adapts to the sustained pace of scientific progress by regularly electing new members. In this way, it ensures the broadest possible coverage of all scientific fields, including the most emerging ones, and nourishes the richness of the debates and work within its groups and committees. At the beginning of the 2000s, it also changed its statutes in order to rejuvenate its membership: at each election session, at least 50% of new members are under 55 years old. The Academy currently has 284 members, 115 foreign associates and 70 correspondents.

Michel Campillo has already been distinguished on several occasions for the scientific excellence of his research work, notably by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2018; he was also the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant in 2016.


This article was originally published by the Grenoble Alpes University. Translated with the help of www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)