Publié le 12 décembre 2016 - Mis à jour le 3 mai 2024

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Vincent Breton received his Engineer degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris in 1985 and his PhD in Nuclear Physics from the University of Paris XI- Orsay in 1990. Since 1990, he has been a Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at LPCA (Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont-Auvergne).  

In 2001, he founded a research group (http://clrpcsv.in2p3.fr) on the application to biomedical sciences of the IT technologies and tools used in high energy physics. He is one of the founders in 2002 of the GATE collaboration (http://opengate.in2p3.fr) gathering more than 20 research laboratories around the world, in 2005 of the WISDOM initiative dedicated to in silico drug discovery on grid infrastructures and in 2015 of the Territoires Uranifères Long Term Ecological Research Observatory (ZATU).
Scientific leader of the France Grilles national infrastructure since 2010, he has been coordinating work packages in several European projects within FP5 (DataGrid), FP6 (EGEE, BioInfoGrid, Embrace, SHARE, EGEE-II) and Horizon2020 (EOSC-Pillar) Framework Programmes.

Author of 170+ peer-reviewed publications (h-index 54), co-supervisor of 20+ PhDs and co-owner of 3 patents, he currently leads the environment team at LPCA.