Gabriel Chardin

Physicist Gabriel Chardin chairs the committee overseeing the very large research infrastructures (TGIR) of the CNRS. He received the 2007 CNRS Silver Medal for his research on dark matter. From 2012 to 2014, he acted as deputy scientific director at the CNRS's National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (IN2P3) and is the former director of the interdisciplinary CSNSM laboratory1 in Orsay (near Paris).