Mehdi Gmar

Mehdi Gmar began his career at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), where he spent 20 years supervising instrumentation research and then managing technological research for business innovation. In 2021, he was appointed as an advisor to Frédérique Vidal, then Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. Appointed Deputy CEO for Innovation at the CNRS in 2025, he now oversees the organisation's innovation and research promotion strategy. Mehdi holds a degree in physics and a PhD in nuclear instrumentation.