Jean Daillant

J. Daillant is an experimental physicist (soft-condensed matter). His expertise focuses on soft matter physics and liquid interfaces. In 1989, he became Head of the Soft Matter and Interfaces Group at the CEA before becoming joint director of LURE, the French national synchrotron light source in Orsay, from 1999 to 2003. In 2004, J. Daillant became Head of the CEA-CNRS Laboratory LIONS for Interdisciplinary Research on Nanometric and Supramolecular Organisation. In 2011 and until 2024, he was Director General of SOLEIL. In 2024, he joined the ESRF as Director General.