The career of Yassine Lakhnech, President of UGA

A graduate of the University of Kiel in Germany, Yassine Lakhnech specializes in program verification and provable security, as well as in the links between logic and computational models. He has been involved in the construction of several structuring projects on the site, including the Labex Persyval-lab, the PILSI (IMAG) campus operation and the Université Grenoble Alpes excellence initiative. He has held a number of positions in education, including deputy vice-president of research at Université Joseph Fourier (UJF), vice-president of research at UJF and executive director of the research and development component of the IDEX initiative.

In January 2020, Yassine Lakhnech was elected President of Université Grenoble Alpes, which now comprises 3 component institutions: Grenoble INP, Institut d'ingénierie et de management-UGA, Science Po Grenoble-UGA, Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Grenoble ENSAG-UGA and 3 academic components: Faculté des sciences-UGA, Ecole universitaire de technologie-UGA, Faculté Humanités, santé, sport, sociétés-UGA.

On January 11, 2024, he was elected President of the Grand établissement Université Grenoble Alpes for a 4-year term.

Yassine Lakhnech also sits on the Board of Directors of Udice, an alliance of 10 leading French universities working for research excellence, higher education performance, and the development of attractive innovation ecosystems. And since December 2022, he has been Chairman of the Research and Innovation Council of France Universités.