Philippe Moretto: Science and society mission officer

A native of the Gironde metropolis, Philippe Moretto studied at university in the area until his thesis in 1987 and his position as lecturer a year later. He then joined the Centre of Nuclear Studies - Bordeaux-Gradignan (CENBG), now the Physics of the Two Infinities Laboratory (LP2I).

Throughout his career, Philippe Moretto has been in charge of various university facilities and training components, both in the field of training and research.
Appointed university professor in 1997, he has been very active in teaching. He was in charge of the Master degree in physics from 2003 to 2011, and created a professional training course in nuclear instrumentation in 2009, which is now an integral part of the training programmes offered by the University of Bordeaux.

In terms of research, he set up a "physics-biology interface" research team and the AIFIRA platform in 2006, which has since been accredited by the University of Bordeaux. He was also director of the umbrella structure that brought together all the physics units of University Bordeaux I (Institute of Fundamental Physics - IPF) from 2008 to 2011. Finally, Philippe Moretto directed the CENBG from 2011 to 2017, a position he left to take up the position of Vice-President for research at the University of Bordeaux in February 2018.

In February 2022, he was appointed Science and society mission officer by President Dean Lewis.