Bernard Bigot

Bernard Bigot (24 January 1950 – 14 May 2022) was an academic, civil servant. He served as the Director-General of the ITER organization between 2015 and 2022. He was the president of the École normale supérieure de Lyon, and director of the French Commission for Atomic Energy.

Education
Bigot completed his doctoral thesis in 1979 at Orsay with Lionel Salem as his supervisor, titled Étude théorique de la réactivité des états excités des molécules organiques par la méthode des corrélations naturelles.

Personal life
Bigot married Chantal Martin in 1975.

Bigot died on May 14, 2022, at the age of 72.