Jacques Treiner

Jacques Treiner is a theoretical physicist, former professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University, now associate researcher at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Future Energy, University of Paris, and president of the Shift Project Expert Group.

In addition to his career as a researcher (specializing in quantum fluids), he has always been concerned with teaching his discipline and the interface between science and society. He is the author of textbooks, thematic journals on various subjects (Einstein, The Energy-Climate Coupling, Deterministic Chaos, Brownian Motion), books, and popular science articles (notably on the age of the Earth, the greenhouse effect, and the manufacture of ignorance). From 1999 to 2002, he chaired the expert group responsible for the physics and chemistry programs taught in general and technological high schools between 2000 and 2011. Together with F. Gicquel, he has translated Naomi Oreskès and Eric Conway's book, Merchants of Doubt, Clive Hamilton's Requiem for the Human Species, David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity, Kerry Emmanuel's Climate in Eight Lessons, and recently (2024) Vaclav Smil's How the World Really Works. He co-wrote a play with one of his sons, Fission, which was performed at the Théâtre de la Reine Blanche in 2016, and wrote a one-man show, La fragile singularité de l'esprit humain (The Fragile Singularity of the Human Mind), which was performed at the Théâtre de la Reine Blanche in June 2023 and November 2024.