Composition of the Scientific Board
The Scientific Board is composed of 14 respected individuals - researchers, international experts in their field and AXA representatives. It is under the direction of Professor Thomas Kirkwood.
For any request about selection and application, please contact the operationnal team.
President of the Scientific Board
Professor Thomas Kirkwood
Dean of Ageing and Director of the Changing Age Initiative at Newcastle University (UK).
His research is focused on the basic science of ageing and on understanding how genes as well as non-genetic factors, such as nutrition, influence longevity and health in old age.
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Academics
Professor Nihat Berker
President of Sabanci University, Istanbul (Turkey)
Emeritus Professor of Physics, MIT (USA).
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Professor Maria A. Blasco
Director and Head of the Telomeres and Telomerase Group, National Cancer Research Centre, CNIO (Spain)
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Professor Alessandra Casella
Professor of Economics, Columbia University (USA).
Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA (USA).
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Sylvie Lemmet
Director of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Paris-based Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (France).
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Professor Lawrence Lessig
Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University (USA)
Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (USA)
Doctor Valérie Masson-Delmotte
Research Director in Paleoclimatology, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’environnement, LSCE (France)
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Professor Dominique Pestre
Professor, History of Science and Science in Society, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, EHESS (France)
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Professor David Spiegelhalter
Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK)
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AXA representatives
Mr. Eric Chaney
Chief Economist AXA Group, Head of Research at AXA Investment Managers
Mrs Anne-Juliette Hermant
Global Head of Learning and Development, AXA Group
Mr. Jean-Christophe Ménioux
Chief Risk Officer, AXA Group
Mrs Lucie Taleyson
Technical and Marketing Director, AXA Group Life Solutions
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Véronique Weill
Chief Operating Officer and member of the Management Committee, AXA Group
Former Scientific Board Members
The AXA Research Fund wishes to thank:
Ezra Suleiman, Former President of the Scientific Board(Princeton University)
Pierre-André Chiappori (Columbia University)
Pascale Cossart (INSERM, Pasteur Institute)
Brian Hoskins (Imperial College)
Alain d'Iribarne (CNRS)
Daniel Laurent (Université Marne-La-Vallée)
Hervé le Treut (Ecole Polytechnique)
Miroslav Radman (INSERM)
Hélène Rey (London Business School)
José A. Scheinkman (Princeton University)
James Vaupel( Max Planck Institute)
Nicolas Chanut (Exane)
Xavier de Bellefon (AXA)
François Bucchini (AXA)
François Robinet (AXA)
Alain Rohaut (AXA)
George Stansfield (AXA)
Granted projects
€ 99 million committed, 367 research projects supported in 27 countries, 49 different nationalities.
News
Pierre-André Chiappori quoted AXA Research Fund as a model of corporate funding of research
Pierre-André Chiappori, Professor of Economics at Columbia University, just published a study about the funding of research. He was interviewed on BFM radio to briefly present its results and quoted Henri de Castries and the AXA Research Fund as a model of corporate funding of research.
Results of 2011 Post-Doc and PhD fellowship campaigns are online!
The AXA Research Fund is pleased to announce the results of the selected applications for its 2011 PhDs and Post-Docs (Wave 1) Fellowships Campaign.
How to obtain funding
Institutions and researchers: find out more about our grants.
