Claude Kirchner Director of INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest Research Centre +33 3 54 95 84 05 (Secretary office: +33 1 72 92 59 02) Scientific leader of the PROTHEO project-team Claude.Kirchner@inria.fr

Claude Kirchner has been appointed as Director of INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest Research Centre on January 1^st, 2007.

He holds a PhD in computer science, he taught mathematics at secondary school level, was a senior lecturer in computer science, a CNRS researcher and, since 1988, he has been Director of Research at INRIA.
His centres of interest and internationally renowned scientific contributions are based on logical and semantic foundations, with particular emphasis on rewriting, for the design and implementation of secure systems. He contributed to the emergence of deduction modulo and  rewriting calculus.
In 1992 he created and then managed the PROTHEO project-team. In 2002 he was joint prize winner of the grand prix from the French  Academy of Science for his work that helped establish the Sino-French cultural foundation. Since 2003 he has presided over the scientific council and evaluation committee for ministry programmes and then for the French national research agency in the fields of security and computer science. Claude Kirchner has been appointed as Director of INRIA Futurs Research Centre, where he took up his functions on 1 June 2007. He is oversee the implementation of the INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest Research Centre.