Nathalie Drach-Temam elected President of Sorbonne University for a second term
Nathalie Drach-Temam has been elected President of Sorbonne University by the university’s new Board of Directors, which convened on Monday 15 December 2025. She received 23 votes in favour, 5 blank votes and 2 invalid votes, and will begin a second four-year term as the university’s president. The president’s team will be completed in January 2026.
About Nathalie Drach-Temam
With an academic background in mathematics, Nathalie Drach-Temam has been a professor in computer science at Sorbonne University since 2004. She previously taught and carried out research at the University of Rennes, University Paris-Sud and Inria, the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology. Her area of expertise is processor design, the key to all computer systems, taking into account both hardware and software dimensions.
From 2006 to 2011, she created and led the ALSOC team (Architecture and Software for Systems on Chip) at the Paris 6 Computer Science Laboratory (LIP6 – Sorbonne University/CNRS). She also created and managed the Computer Science Master’s programme, specialised in the Architecture and Design of Integrated Systems, from 2005 to 2009. She has coordinated numerous national and international academic and industrial projects and is currently a member of European and national networks of excellence and experts.
From 2012 to 2016, Nathalie Drach-Temam was Vice President for careers and student life at Pierre and Marie Curie University, and later in charge of education and careers from 2016 to 2017. From 2018 to 2021, she was Vice President for research, innovation and open science at Sorbonne University. Since 5 March 2025, she has also been President of Udice, a national alliance for French research universities.
As President of Sorbonne University since 2021, Nathalie Drach-Temam will pursue the work undertaken in scientific strategy, innovation, societal outreach and internationally. Building on her previous experience, she intends to implement the university’s new institutional plan (2025-2029), strengthening its ambitions in research and education, whilst respecting academic specificities and multidisciplinarity and consolidating institutional cohesion.