IPhO 2025 Steering Committee

Daniel Rouan

Committee Chairperson,
President of the Société Française de Physique,
Emeritus Research Director, CNRS
Chair of the Executive Committee

Aristide Cavailles

Committee Vice-chairperson,
General Inspector for Education, Sport and Research

Elisabeth Giacobino

Vice-President of the Société Française de Physique,
Emeritus Research Director, CNRS, LKB

Representative appointed by the Ministry of Education: M. Manuel Brossé
Representative appointed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research: M. Olivier Marco

Silke Biermann

Head of the Department of Physics at Ecole Polytechnique

Kees van der Beek

Vice-Provost for Research at Ecole polytechnique
Vice-President Research at Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Permanent guests :
Yannick Alméras, Pierre Chavel, Dominique Obert, Julia Roussel

IPhO 2025 Scientific Committee

The scientific committee is responsible for drawing up the subjects for the theoretical and experimental tests, in line with precise specifications.

The subjects are then discussed at two meetings attended by all the delegations. During these meetings, the subjects are adjusted to suit the majority of delegations; each decision to amend the subjects is subject to a vote.

The scientific committee is also in charge of proposing a solution and a marking scheme for each of the two tests. A French team of markers is responsible for evaluating the candidates' papers before moderation with the team leaders.

The full composition of the scientific committee will be announced at the end of the International Physics Olympiad.

Yannick Alméras

Chairperson of the Scientific Committee
General Inspector for Education, Sport and Research

IPhO 2025 Organizing Committee

Pierre Chavel

Committee co-chair,
Institut d'Optique, former research scientist, Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Dominique Obert

Committee co-chair,
Honorary General Inspector for Education, Sport and Research

Julia Roussel

Event Project Manager

Moulay-Badr Attaiaa

Physics and Chemistry Teacher

Alexis Bardeur

Communications Officer

Guy Bonnaud

Former CEA Research Director and INSTN Professor

Alain Cano

Physics and Chemistry Teacher

Gabriel Chardin

Research Director, CNRS

Sylvie Dancre

Senior Lecturer, Lycée Louis-le-Grand

Lester David

Ground/space instrumentation systems engineer

Christophe Paulhac

Physics and Chemistry Teacher

Sophie Rémy

Senior Lecturer in Physics

Yves Sacquin

Experimental Physicist in IRFU's Particle Physics Department, CEA-Saclay

Catherine Velay

Senior Lecturer, Lycée Louis-le-Grand MPSI

Mayline Verguin

Communications Manager

Guy Wormser

Director of research, CNRS, IJCLab

Permanent Guests :
Yannick Alméras, Aristide Cavaillès, Elisabeth Giacobino, Daniel Rouan