Snapshot
17 mai 2023
The National Centre for Scientific Research is an interdisciplinary public research organisation under the administrative supervision of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
Nearly 3.8 billion A budget of
33,000 people dedicated to research
More 1,100 research laboratories in France and abroad
Status : Public Scientific and Technological Establishment (EPST)
Date of creation : October 19, 1939
President : Antoine Petit
Headquarters : 3, rue Michel-Ange, Paris 16e
Research fields :
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Ecology and environment
- Humanities and social sciences
- Engineering and systems
- Mathematics
- Nuclear and particles
- Physics
- Information sciences
- Earth sciences and astronomy
CNRS, pushing back the frontiers of science
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