Isabelle Chrisment
Director of the Inria centre at Université de Lorraine and of Inria Branch at the University of Strasbourg
Since July 1st, 2025, Isabelle Chrisment has been director of the Inria research center at the University of Lorraine and of the Inria branch at the University of Strasbourg.
Isabelle Chrisment holds a PhD in computer science from the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (Inria RODEO project-team), obtained in 1996, on the evolution of Internet protocols, and in particular on the design of communication systems better adapted to the needs of applications.
In 1997, as a senior lecturer, she joined the Inria RESEDAS project-team at the Inria Nancy - Grand Est research center, then the Inria MADYNES project-team, on a research theme linked to the supervision and security of dynamic networks and services.
In 2005, she obtained her Habilitation to supervise research (in French 'Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches' - HDR), and in 2006 became a professor at the École Supérieure d'Informatique et Applications de Lorraine (now known as TELECOM Nancy). From 2009 to 2014, she held the position of Deputy Director.
She took on scientific responsibility for the MADYNES project-team from 2014 to 2017, then in 2018 created and led the Inria RESIST project-team, whose aim is to make networked systems more secure and resilient. Isabelle Chrisment's work has applications in many fields, such as strengthening IT security on the Cloud-Networks-Internet of Things continuum.
On January 1, 2021, she was appointed Deputy Scientific Director of Inria, with particular responsibility for the “Networks, Systems and Services, Distributed Computing” research area, which encompasses some 30 projects spread across the nine Inria Centers. In particular, she is responsible for monitoring the life cycle of these projects, from their inception to their evaluation, such as Inria Challenges or Inria's Exploratory Actions.
