Gérard Toulouse


CURRICULUM VITAE


Born Sep 4, 1939 at Vattetot-sur-mer (Normandy, France)
1959 - 1963 : Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
1963 : Agrégation Sciences Physiques
1963 - 1964 : Military service, Ecole Polytechnique
1965 - : Research scientist, Cnrs (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
1965 - 1976 : Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (Orsay)
1968 : Thèse de Doctorat d'Etat
1969 - 1971 : Postdoctoral fellow at U.C.S.D. (La Jolla, California)
1976 : Langevin Prize (French Physical Society)
1976 - : Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS, Paris)
1979 : Triossi Prize (Académie des Sciences)
1978 - 1980 : Lecturer at Ecole Polytechnique
1983 : Holweck Prize (British Institute of Physics & French Physical Society)
1985 - 1986 : Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris
1986 : Loeb Lecturer at Harvard
1987 : Promoter of the european initiative BRAIN
1987 - 1996 : Associate editor of Reviews of Modern Physics
1987 - 1988 : Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies of Jerusalem
1989 : C.E.A. Prize (Académie des Sciences)
1990 : E.Montroll Memorial Lecturer (Leiden)
1990 - : Membre correspondant de l'Académie des Sciences (Paris)
1993 - 1998 : Member of the Scientific Board of Institut Curie
1994 - 1997 : Member of COMETS (Comité d'éthique pour les sciences, Cnrs)
1994 - : Member of Comité de défense des hommes de science (CODHOS) and Comité sur les pays en développement (COPED) (Acad.Sci.Paris)
1994 - 1996 : Member of the Board of directors of Docks de France
1996 - 2001 : Member of Comité des relations internationales (Acad.Sci.Paris)
1996 - : Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1996 - : Founder and executive director of the La Ferthé foundation
1997 - 2010 : Vice-chair then chair (1999 - 2010) of the Committee for exact and natural sciences (French National Commission for Unesco)
1998 - 2010 : Vice-president of Pugwash-France
1999 - : Member (chairman, 2001 - 2006) of the Standing Committee on Science and Ethics (ALLEA, All European Academies)
1999 : Cecil Powell Medal (European Physical Society)
2000 - 2005 : Corresponding member of the COMEST (World commission for the ethics of scientific knowledge and technologies, Unesco); member of the Comité français de liaison de la Décennie des Nations-Unies pour l'éducation aux droits de l'homme
2000 - : founding member of the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF)
2001 - : member of the Commission on Ethics (NATF)
2002 - 2005 : member of the steering committee for the 'Espace éthique' (ENS)
2003 - 2004 : member of the Unesco ad hoc Committee of experts for an International Basic Sciences Program
2003 - : member (vice-president, 2004 - 2010) of the European Academy of Sciences, arts and letters
2005 - : Honorary Member of the Palestine Academy for Science and Technology (PALAST)
2005 - 2010 : member of the Foresight Committee of the University of Cergy-Pontoise
2006 : Grand témoin for a Cycle of public debates on nanobiotechnologies (Grenoble)
2006-2007 : Chair of Steering Committee, Citizens' Conference on Nanotechnologies (Ile de France)
2007 : member of the joint Ethics Committee for INRA - CIRAD 

2009 : member of the Board of Trustees, Science and Develoment Network (SciDev.Net), London

2009 - external member of Académie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Touraine


Main books

1975. Introduction au groupe de renormalisation et à ses applications, with Pierre Pfeuty (Presses Universitaires de Grenoble);
1977. Introduction to the Renormalization Group and to Critical Phenomena, with Pierre Pfeuty (Wiley)
1994. Biology and Computation: a Physicist's Choice, with Hanoch Gutfreund (World Scientific Pub.)
1998. Regards sur l'éthique des sciences (Hachette-Littératures); 2003, Mirada sobre la ética de las ciencias (Ediciones del Laberinto)
2003. Les scientifiques et les droits de l'Homme, avec Lydie Koch-Miramond (Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme)