Sébastien Descotes-Genon

Management of research

• Since 2020: Deputy director of IJCLab (Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay)

• 2014-2019: Director of Laboratoire de Physique Théorique (Orsay)

Research contracts and networks

• Coordinator at the French level for the European network RBI-T-WINNING (2016-2019) to develop links between RBI Zagreb (Croatia) and various European laboratories.

• Coordinator on the French side of a project of international scientific collaboration PICS (INP/IN2P3) with IHEP (Beijing, China) on charm physics at BESIII and its impacts for the CKM matrix elements in the Standard Model and beyond (2010-2013).

• Coordinator of PEPS Theoretical Physics projects (INP/IN2P3) on the constraints set by flavour physics on new physics (2009) and the activities of the CKMfitter group (2012-2013).

• Coordinator of the ANR project for young researchers called DIAM, on light-cone distribution amplitudes (2008-2011).

• Coordinator at the French level for the European network Flavianet (2006-2010) gathering teams of experimentalists and theorists in flavour physics over Europe.

Assessment of research

• From 2008 to 2012, member of the CNRS section 02 (Theoretical physics).

• From 2006 to 2008, vice-president, and from 2015 on, member of the recruiting committee CS 29 (Elementary constituents) at Université Paris-Sud.

• Referee for Phys. Rev. Letters, Phys. Rev. D, JHEP, Eur. Phys. Journal C, Phys. Lett. B, Journ. of Phys. A, Journ. of Phys. G, Nucl. Phys. A, among others.

  Scientific animation

  Member of the local organising committee of international conferences:
  • Rare semileptonic B Decays: Theory and Experiment (Lyon, September 2019)
  • New physics at the low-energy precision frontier (Orsay, September 2019)
  • Getting to grips with the strong force (Primosten, Croatia, September 2018)
  • Getting to grips with the QCD (Paris, April 2018)
  • Session Rare B,D,K decays of 10th International Workshop on the CKM unitarity triangle (CKM 2018) (Heidelberg, Germany, September 2018)
  • Current trends in flavor physics (Paris, March 2017)
  • Flavor of New Physics in b→s transitions (Paris, July 2014)
  • ICHEP 2010 (Paris, July 2010)
  • Euroflavour 07, the annual meeting of the Flavianet network (Orsay, November 2007)

and national conferences/schools:
• Rencontres de physique de l'infiniment petit à l'infiniment grand (Orsay, July 2019)
• Rencontres de physique de l'infiniment petit à l'infiniment grand (Orsay, July 2018)
• Rencontres de physique de l'infiniment petit à l'infiniment grand (Orsay, July 2017)
• Rencontres de physique de l'infiniment petit à l'infiniment grand (Orsay, July 2016)
• Meeting of French theorists in particle physics 2015 (Paris, January 2015)
• Rencontres de physique de l'infiniment petit à l'infiniment grand (Orsay, July 2015)
• Rencontres de physique de l'infiniment petit à l'infiniment grand (Orsay, July 2014)
• Rencontres de physique de l'infiniment petit à l'infiniment grand (Orsay, July 2013)
• Rencontres de physique de l'infiniment petit à l'infiniment grand (Orsay, July 2012)
• Rencontres de physique de l'infiniment petit à l'infiniment grand (Orsay, July 2011)
• Congrès Général de la SFP 2009 (Palaiseau, July 2009)
• Meeting of Young researchers 2008 (Saint-Flour, December 2008) (SFP/IN2P3/CNRS/CEA)
• Meeting of Young researchers 2007 (Dinard, December 2007) (SFP/IN2P3/CNRS/CEA)
• Meeting of French theorists in particle physics 2006 (Paris, March 2006)
• ENCRE, a school welcoming recently-hired CNRS researchers in maths and physics (Aussois, June 2003).

Seminars

• From 2007 to 2012, member of the local section and from 2014 to 2016, president of Paris-Sud section of the French Physical Society.

• From 2007 to 2009, co-organiser of the seminars of particle physics at LPT.

• From 2000 to 2002, local coordinator of regular seminars between theorists in Southampton and experimentalists at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL Oxford).