Alain Bui (born in 1969) is a French

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who's specialized in

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, and the current

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Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (, ''UVSQ'') is a French public university created in 1991, located in the department of Yvelines and, since 2002, in Hauts-de-Seine. It is a constituent university of the federal Paris-Saclay Un ...

Biography

Training

Alain Bui was trained in

Paris Diderot University Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (french: Université Paris Diderot), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 197 ...

. In 1999, he qualified to manage research at

Paris 8 University Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis (french: Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis) is a public university in Paris, France. Once part of the historic University of Paris, it is now an autonomous public institution. It is one of the th ...

Academic career

Bui started his career as

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at the

University of Picardie Jules Verne The University of Picardy Jules Verne (French: ''Université de Picardie Jules Verne''; UPJV) is a public university located in the former Picardy region of France (now part of Hauts-de-France). It consists of several campuses located in the t ...

from 1995 to 1999, before becoming a teacher at the

University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne The University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (; URCA), also known simply as the University of Reims, is a public university based in Reims, France. In addition to the main campus in Reims, the university has several campuses located throughout t ...

. In 2003, Bui joined the

French National Centre for Scientific Research The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

as the Head of the Simulation Department. He was the Head of the Prims Laboratory between 2013 and 2015. At UVSQ, he was the international relationship director from 2012 to 2016, then Vice-President from 2016 to 2017.Versailles - Saint-Quentin : un nouveau Vice-President pour l’UVSQ
/ref> He is the author of more than 60 scientific publications.

Political activities

He is member of the ''Haut Conseil de l'évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur'' and of the '' Agence nationale de la recherche''. From 2011 to 2016, he was also the member of the ''Conseil national des universités''.

President of the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University

In October 2017, he became president of

, succeeding Didier Guillemot.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bui, Alain Living people 1969 births Heads of universities in France Academic staff of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University