1. Michel Spiro completed his graduate studies in theoretical physics in 1969.
15 Facts About Michel Spiro
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Michel Spiro joined the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in 1970, as an engineer.
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Michel Spiro was promoted to the position of director of the Particle Physics Section of the Department of Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Associated Instrumentation in 1991 and led the section until 1999.
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Michel Spiro became charge de mission of the CEA and assistant scientific director in Centre national de la recherche scientifique, responsible for astroparticle physics and neutrinos.
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Michel Spiro took over the leadership of DAPNIA in 2002.
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Michel Spiro obtained his PhD from University of Paris-Sud, Orsay in 1976.
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Michel Spiro then turned to study particles from the cosmos by participating in the GALLEX solar neutrino detection experiment.
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Michel Spiro became then the spokesperson of the microlensing search experiment EROS.
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From 1983 to 1999, Professor Michel Spiro lectured quantum mechanics, then stellar equilibrium and evolution and finally energy and environment at the Ecole Polytechnique.
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Michel Spiro's presidency overlapped with the start of LHC physics.
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Michel Spiro was president of the French Physical Society from 2016 to 2017 and president-elect for International Union of Pure and Applied Physics as of 2018.
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In October 2019 Spiro was asked to replace IUPAP president Kennedy J Reed who wanted to step down for personal reasons.
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In June 2020, Michel Spiro was appointed chair of the CERN and Society Foundation Board, a foundation to support and promote the mission of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and disseminate its benefits to the wider public.
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Michel Spiro chaired during 2022 and 2023 the steering committee of the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development.
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Michel Spiro contributed towards the proclamation on August 25,2023, by the United Nations General Assembly, of an International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development 2024 to 2033.