Professor Michael Matlosz is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of the French National Research Agency (ANR) in Paris. Born in 1957 in Elizabeth (New Jersey, USA), Professor Matlosz holds a BS degree in chemical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a PhD in electrochemical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

He began his professional research career in 1985 in the department of materials science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne (Switzerland), prior to appointment in 1993 as university professor of process engineering at the National School for Advanced Study of the Chemical Industries (ENSIC), the chemical engineering faculty of the University of Lorraine in Nancy (France).

A specialist in the application of microtechnologies for performance enhancement in chemical production, he initiated and directed from 2005 to 2009 a major European research initiative, IMPULSE, dedicated to innovation in the chemical process industries.

Professor Matlosz was Director of ENSIC-Nancy from 2006 to 2011, and Head of the ANR Department of Exploratory and Emerging Research from 2011 to 2014. He is a member of the National Academy of Technologies of France, and was named President and Chief Executive Officer of the ANR in September 2014.  Professor Matlosz was elected President of Science Europe in November 2015.