Organization

Managing Directorate

The ISCD is in line with the university tradition of fostering collaborative research, by gathering people together to solve difficult problems, engaging faculties and their students in university-wide collaborations. An important feature of the ISCD organizational structure is that it is a research institution contributing to the scientific strategy at the university level, which spans departmental boundaries.

The ISCD decision-making structure has three levels:

1. The Board
   is composed of a director assisted by a project manager and by four members elected by the groups participating. The director is responsible for the scientific management and the representation of the ISCD. The director is elected by the Scientific Advisory Committee and is appointed by the president of Sorbonne Université. The administrative director coordinates the activities of the research teams, identifies and contributes to defining the demands and needs of researchers, and set up a development plan.

   The current members of the board are:

   Pascal Frey, ISCD director	Agnieszka Miskiewicz, project manager
   Titien Bartette, post-doctoral researcher	Jérémy Dalphin, research engineer
   Pr. François Cornélis, (AP-HP, Tenon Hosp.)	Pr. Xavier Tannier, (Limics)




2. The Scientific Advisory Committee
   is composed of eight renowned scholars who provide scientific advice and guidance to ISCD researchers and fellows, and lead collaborative effort with other worldwide groups and institutions. The Committee is responsible for all strategic decisions and meet once a year. Their decision overrules the decisions of the other boards.



computer science

Serge Abiteboul

Inria



computer science, philosophy

Bruno Bachimont

Sorbonne Université



computer science

Michel Daydé

University of Toulouse



geodynamics

Richard Foa Katz

University of Oxford



plasma physics

Virginie
Grandgirard

CEA-Cadarache



astronomy

Jacques Laskar

Observatoire de Paris



applied mathematics

Claude Le Bris

Ecole des Ponts, Inria
chairman



computational chemistry

Benedetta
Mennucci

University of Pisa




3. The Board of Affiliates
   consists of the scientific leaders of the ISCD team-projects and invited fellows; it is responsible for ongoing decisions, approves the budget, analyzes and selects the research projects, and meets approximately every six weeks.

   Pierre Yves Boëlle (medicine, AP-HP)	Eric Cancès (applied maths, Inria)	Alessandra Carbone (comput.biology, LQCB)
   François Cornélis (medicine, AP-HP)	Alexandre Guilbaud (mathematics, IMJ)	Laurent Mesnard (medicine, AP-HP)
   Jean Philip Piquemal (chemistry, LCT)	Emmanuelle Rosso (archeology, INHA)

The ISCD Staff

Due to its innovative structure, as a central institution of the university, the ISCD has few staff members. Today it integrates research engineers and several junior researchers that are located in its premises.