Michel GuidalPresident of the Very Large-Scale Research Facilities and Infrastructures Committee (TGIR)

Michel Guidal is a CNRS research professor in the field of high-energy physics, whose work mainly focuses on the structure of the proton in terms of its elementary constituents, quarks and gluons. Most of his research has been carried out at the Orsay Nuclear Physics Institute (now the Irène Joliot-Curie Lab) and working on the Jefferson Laboratory's electron accelerator. His research earned him the 2014 Joliot-Curie prize awarded by the Société Française de Physique.

From 2017 to 2020, he directed the Orsay Nuclear Physics Institute, one of the world's largest laboratories in this field with its 300+ staff members. He was deputy vice-president for research and development in charge of science and engineering at Paris-Saclay University from 2020 to 2024. Now, since March 1st of this year, he has held the post of President of the CNRS's Very Large Research Facilities and Infrastructures Committee (TGIR).

Following his studies at Université Paris-Sud and a Master of Science from the University of South Carolina, he completed his thesis at CEA Saclay (nuclear physics department), obtaining a physics PhD from Université Paris-Sud in 1996. His peers have also elected him to the Academia Europaea learned society.