Pascal Lecroart: Vice President for Education and University Life

Born in 1968 in Amiens, Pascal Lecroart entered the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 1988 and specialized in Earth sciences to prepare for a master's degree and the agrégation in life and Earth sciences, which he obtained in 1991. Teaching had always been a strong professional goal for him, but it was through contact with the teacher-researchers at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon that he developed a taste for research.

In 1993, he joined the University of Toulouse Paul Sabatier to prepare a doctorate in internal geophysics and defended his thesis in 1997. He was recruited as a lecturer at the University of Bordeaux 1. He joined the EPOC laboratory (Environments and Paleo-environments of the Oceans and Continents) (in French) to study biogeochemical flows in natural sedimentary environments or those disturbed by human activity.

Pascal Lecroart was appointed university professor in 2009 and elected director of the Earth and Marine Sciences training and Research Unit in 2011. In 2013, the president of Bordeaux 1 University asked him to contribute to the project to merge Bordeaux's universities. Dean Lewis, then president of Bordeaux 1 University, entrusted him with the responsibility of developing the project for the University of Bordeaux's College of Science and Technology. He was elected director of this college in 2014 and re-elected in 2019.

In 2022, Dean Lewis offered him the position of Vice President of the University of Bordeaux in charge of Education and University Life, a position he accepted with enthusiasm. During his four years in office, he has been committed to supporting the transformation of the educational offering in the service of student success, in all its diversity.

Key dates

1988 - Admission to the Ecole Normale Supérieur, Lyon

1991 - Agrégation in earth and life sciences

1997 - Doctorate in internal geophysics, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 

1998 - Lecturer, University Bordeaux I

2009 - University professor, University Bordeaux I

2011 - Director of Earth and Marine Sciences UFR, University Bordeaux I

2014 - Director of the College of Science and Technology, University of Bordeaux

2019 - 2^nd term as director of the College of Science and Technology, University of Bordeaux

2021 - Vice-President of CDUS (Conference of Scientific UFR Directors)

2022 - Vice-President for Education and University Life, University of Bordeaux

2026 - Vice-President for Education and University Life, University of Bordeaux