France’s council of ministers has reappointed chemist Alain Fuchs as president of the country’s national research centre, the CNRS.
Fuchs, who began his first four-year term in 2010, was reappointed on 26 February. Before joining the CNRS, he was director of Chimie ParisTech, a higher education institution specialising in chemistry.
The budget of the CNRS has been cut by nearly 5 per cent for 2014. According to a statement released by the SNTRS-CGT union in February, 842 jobs are expected to be cut this year. The CNRS employs about 25,000 staff, of which about 11,000 are researchers.
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