Laëtitia Atlani-Duault and Jens Kreisel join The Guild's board

The General Assembly of The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities has elected Laëtitia Atlani-Duault and Jens Kreisel as Board members.

The network of 23 European research-intensive universities presented on 02/09/2026 the new members of its board, elected in June 2026.

Laëtitia Atlani-Duault is a research professor and anthropologist specialising in humanitarian and health crises. She is currently Vice-President for Europe at Université Paris Cité. She is the founder and president of the Covid-19 Ad Memoriam Institute and served on the French government’s Covid-19 Scientific Advisory Board (2020-2022).

Jens Kreisel has been Rector of the University of Luxembourg since January 2023. He obtained his PhD in materials physics in 1999 at the Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP), France. Among other roles, he served as a research director at the CNRS in Grenoble (until 2011) and as Vice-Rector for Research and Professor of Physics and Materials Science at the University of Luxembourg (2018-2022).

Laëtitia Atlani-Duault and Jens Kreisel take over from Rector Toomas…