Jean Chambaz is president of Sorbonne University, a new university established on 2018, following the merger between the Paris-Sorbonne and the Pierre and Marie Curie Universities. Jean Chambaz was President of Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) since 2012.
Jean Chambaz is a Professor of Cellular Biology. He was head of endocrine biochemistry at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. In 1999, he created a joint Inserm-UPMC research unit in the field of metabolism and intestinal differentiation, which later merged with the Cordeliers Research Center in 2007 where he was then deputy director.
In 2005, he created the Doctoral Education Institute at UPMC. From 2008 to 2011, he was the first chair of the Council for Doctoral Education at the European University Association (EUA).
He is member of the LERU Rectors’ Assembly since 2012 and of the EUA board since 2015.
He has also been president of the Coordination of research-intensive French universities (CURIF) from 2014 to 2018.
Since 2018, he is the new Chair of the League of European Research Universities (LERU).