Joseph ZARKA
Former Director of Research at École Polytechnique, France and Scientist Adviser of the Sino-French Association for Science and Technology (AFCS&T)
He holds a Dr. es-sciences degree from University of Paris (1968) and a Civil-Mechanical Engineering diploma from Ecole Polytechnique (1962). He is now the Scientific Director of JZ Sarl. He was Directeur de Recherches au CNRS, Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides, Ecole Polytechnique, France, 1964-2004. He was Professor and Chairman of the Materials-Structures Departement at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), 1976-1981; Associate Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, 1981-1983; Scientific Director of Centre Etudes Techniques des Industries Mécaniques (CETIM), 1981-1986. He was a part-time visiting scientist at the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials at University of San Diego California (USA) and a part-time visiting professor at Mc Gill University at Montréal (Canada). Since 1986, he participated to the creation of some consultant companies such as MECALOG, since 1989, CADLM (which is a transfert and research center for mechanical, civil-engineering, transportation, off-shore, military industries) in which he was the Scientific Director 1986-2010 and since 2009 he created JZ Sarl. He was appointed a fellow of ASME in 1999.