Michel Jauzein, university professor, has been appointed by the new Director General, Laurent Champaney, to take charge of the Cluny Campus.
With a degree in agricultural engineering from INA P-G (Agro ParisTech) and a PhD in process engineering, Michel Jauzein worked as a research engineer at the CEA in Grenoble between 1989 and 1991. He pursued a career in the private sector as director of research at IRH Environnement, a private subsidiary of Saint Gobain, between 1991 and 1997. In 1998, he was appointed professor of soil science at Henri-Poincaré Nancy 1 University. At this university, he held various positions, including head of a specialization in the Master's program in Geosciences and Civil Engineering, researcher at Limos (Laboratory for the Interaction of Microorganisms, Minerals, and Organic Matter in Soils), and head of the DESS (postgraduate diploma) program in "Natural Resources and the Environment."
Finally, from 2006 to 2016, Michel Jauzein was first Director of Studies at Mines Nancy and then Director General of the same school, part of the University of Lorraine.
He is president of the Artem-Nancy association, which oversees projects carried out by the three schools of the Artem Alliance: the École nationale supérieure d'art et de design de Nancy, the ICN Business School, and Mines Nancy. Other stakeholders include companies, local authorities, and all of the three schools' support laboratories. Within this alliance, he has worked on the construction of the Artem campus, the renewal of CTI accreditation for the three engineering degrees offered by Mines Nancy, and has initiated a fundraising campaign among alumni.
Michel Jauzein joined the Arts et Métiers campus Arts et Métiers Cluny in September 2016 as deputy director, then took over as interim director following the departure of Laurent Arnaud in January 2017. He became the new director of the Cluny Arts et Métiers Campus Arts et Métiers April 19, 2017.