The French CNRS and the International Research Lab
The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) is France's premier public research organization and one of the world's leading scientific institutions. Through the Georgia Tech–CNRS International Research Laboratory (IRL 2958), Georgia Tech Europe is fully integrated into the French research ecosystem.
Professor Declercq's laboratory operates within this international framework, enabling long-term collaborations with universities, research institutes, industry, and governmental organizations throughout Europe.
CNRS was founded in 1939 and is now a public scientific and technological institution (EPST) placed under the administrative supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation.
Its scientific activity is distributed among ten national institutes: human and social sciences, biology, chemistry, ecology and environment, information sciences, engineering and systems sciences, mathematics, physics, nuclear and particles, sciences of the universe. They are at the head of about a thousand units or "laboratories" and labelled services, most of which are managed jointly with other structures (universities, other EPSTs, colleges, industries, etc.).
The CNRS ranks second in the world and first in Europe as a research center.
Declercq's lab is associated with the CNRS through an International Research Lab (IRL) structure.