Bernard Frois (born January 21, 1943, in

Toulouse, France Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Pari ...

) is a French nuclear physicist, energy policy advisor, and science manager.

Education and career

Frois received his doctorate in physics from the

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. From 1968 to 2005 he was employed at the

Saclay Nuclear Research Centre The CEA Paris-Saclay (formerly CEA Saclay) center is one of nine centers belonging to the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). The Saclay site hosts the administrative headquarters of the CEA. Historically, it was the hea ...

as a ''Directeur de recherche'' (senior scientist) at the ''Centre national de la recherche scientifique'' (CNRS). From 2001 to 2005 he was also a ''Directeur du Département Energie, Transport, Environnement et Ressources naturelles'' (Director of the Energy, Transport, Environment and Natural Resources Department) in France's ''Ministère en charge de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche'' (Ministry in charge of higher education and research). From 2006 to 2010 Frois was a ''Directeur de Nouvelles Technologies de l'Energie'' (Director of New Technologies of Energy) of the '' Agence nationale de la recherche'' (ANR). From 2011 to the present he has been a scientific advisor for CEA-Liten. He did considerable research on electron scattering on few-nucleon systems. From nuclear physics he later turned to energy policy and research on energy issues. Frois was vice-president of the

OECD The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate e ...

Global Science Forum, chaired the Europe Union's Hydrogen Platform Mirror Group, and served on many international committees. He was a research associate at

CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in a northwestern suburb of Gene ...

from 1994 to 1995 and a visiting professor at the

University of Utrecht Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollme ...

from 1989 to 1990. He held an adjunct professorship at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

from 1987 to 1997. He has served on the Science and Ethics Committee of the Sahara Wind Project. He is on the governing boards of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF) and the International Partnership for Hydrogen Economy (IPHE), as well as the board of directors of the European Union's Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking and its successor the Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking. In 1981 Frois was elected a Fellow of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

. In 1987 he was awarded, jointly with

Ingo Sick Ingo Sick (28 May 1939 — 30 May 2021) was a Swiss experimental nuclear physicist. Sick earned his PhD in 1968 at the University of Basel. In 1983, he became an ''ausserordentlicher Professor'' (professor without chair) for Experimental Physics a ...

, the

Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics The Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics is an annual prize awarded by the American Physical Society's Division of Nuclear Physics. Established in 1964, and currently consisting of $10,000 and a certificate, the Bonner Prize was founded in memor ...

from the American Physical Society: In 1994 he received the ''médaille d'argent'' (silver medal) of the CNRS. In 2002 he was appointed ''Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite'' by the ''Ministère de la Recherche''.

Selected publications

* as editor with

''Modern topics in Electron Scattering''
World Scientific 1991 * as editor with Vernon Hughes, N. de Groot
''Spin structure of the Nucleon: International School of Nucleon Structure''
Erice Lectures 1995, World Scientific 1997 * as editor with J.-F. Mathiot: ''Hadronic Physics with Electrons Beyond 10 GeV: Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on Hadronic Physics with Electrons Beyond 10 GeV, Dourdan, France, October 7–12, 1990'', North Holland 1991 * as editor with

Marie-Anne Bouchiat Marie-Anne Bouchiat-Guiochon (born 1934) is a French experimental atomic physicist whose research has included studies of neutral currents, parity violation, and hyperpolarization. She is an honorary director of research for the French Nationa ...

''Parity Violation in Atoms and in Polarized Electron Scattering: Ens, Paris, France 21-31 October 1997''
World Scientific 1999

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