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Interview of Mr Laurent Michard, Executive Director of Collège des Sciences de l'Ingénierie et des Systèmes (CSIS)
Which place has the CSIS in the French and international research scene?
CSIS counts 130 research teams divided into 28 laboratories, all internationally significant. There is total of 2500 people, including 1000 permanent researchers and 1000 PhD students.
Regarding publications, CSIS already appears as one of the first European centers in the field of Engineering and Systems Sciences.
This position will be strengthened with the School of Engineering and IST, whose size will be doubled with our ParisTech partners.
Last May 23rd, you offered to launch the initiative of an Open Day of the IDA platforms and the IDA laboratories, which are partners of CSIS. For this occasion, IDA and its laboratories (PPSM, LBPA, SATIE, LPQM) have welcomed about fifty scientists outer ENS Cachan as well as fifteen colleagues from the other labs of ENS Cachan. Which assessment do you make of this day organized around visits of our platforms and presentations of our scientific activities?
In most people's opinion, this day was a success, considering the number of attendees as well as the interest demonstrated for the scientific content.
IDA prefigures, on the ENS Cachan scale, the type of inter-institutions collaborative organization we would like to develop within the CSIS. Consequently it was particularly appropriate to dedicate this first « CSIS Meeting » to IDA.
This kind of success encourages us to increase those meetings. The two next ones are already planned, at the Ecole Centrale de Paris (ECP) in July and at the Ecole supérieure d'électricité (Supélec) in October.
How does CSIS intend to get involved in the Paris-Saclay University project? Does it have the purpose to bring together those different laboratories?
Since its setting-up in 2009, CSIS intends to work on a connection between higher education institutions.
The creation of a School of Engineering and IST in the context of Paris-Saclay University carries out the same logic and, of course, this project is outlined as one of our major concerns.
As of now, all the CSIS initiatives take part of it.
We would like to quickly associate the other partners of the future School to our action, and make good use of their own experiences. I am currently applying myself to doing it.