Yves Sirois

Exceptional class CNRS research director at École Polytechnique (IP Paris)

Trained in Montreal, Canada, and holding a PhD from McGill University, Yves Sirois was awarded a CNRS silver medal in 2014 and elected Fellow of the European Physical Society in 2019. He is a physicist on the CMS experiment at CERN and has been director of the Leprince-Ringuet Laboratory at Institut Polytechnique de Paris since January 2020.

Other contributions

Higgs boson: “We have discovered the origin of matter in the Universe”