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Gérard Giraudon, Director of the Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée research centre.
Gérard Giraudon has been reappointed to his functions as Director of the Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée research centre. Very active in the stimulation of the regional socio-economic fabric, Gérard Giraudon is a member of the board of the SCS competitiveness cluster, director of the Persan association, the Telecom Valley association, and the club of leaders of the ValorPACA association, a coordinator of the Corpaca network, a member of the scientific culture network in the PACA region (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) "Archimède", and, since 2007, chairman of the PACA Est business incubator.
At Inria since 1984, Gérard Giraudon has been director of industrial relations, director of scientific information and communication, and, in 1999, director of development and industrial relations. As such, until 2006, he was a major player in the institute's national policy for technology transfer through the establishment of major industrial partnerships, a new software development organisation at Inria, and integration of the institute in the field of open-source software. Co-founder of ISTAR (now Infoterra), a start-up stemming from Inria Sophia Antipolis in 1988, he is also very involved in the creation of innovative companies.
Gérard Giraudon is an Inria research director. He holds a doctoral thesis in Applied Mathematics from Université de Nice (1979), and habilitation to advise doctoral theses (1991), and he is a specialist in computer vision. He has written around one hundred scientific articles and supervised a dozen doctoral theses. Gérard Giraudon is a Knight in the French National Order of Merit.
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