Antoine Petit has been appointed as
Director of the INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt Research Centre on July
17, 2006.
Following an agrégation in mathematics, Professor
at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Cachan, Antoine Petit went on
to earn a Ph.D. for his thesis in language theory from the University of Paris
7, leading him to study models, mainly based on transition systems, for parallelism
and real time. In a recent past, he occupied the
function of the Vice-president for Research at the STIC department of CNRS
and has been in charge of the CNRS inter-regional Direction of South-west.
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