Sylvie Retailleau

Sylvie Retailleau
Retailleau in 2018
Minister of Higher Education and Research
In office
20 May 2022  21 September 2024
Prime MinisterÉlisabeth Borne
Gabriel Attal
Preceded byFrédérique Vidal
Succeeded byPatrick Hetzel
President of the Paris-Saclay University
In office
2 March 2020  20 May 2022
Preceded byFrançoise Moulin Civil
Succeeded byEstelle Iacona
Personal details
Born
Sylvie Galdin

(1965-02-24) 24 February 1965
Nice, France
Political partyIndependent
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
Paris-Sud 11 University
ProfessionPhysicist
Sylvie Retailleau
Scientific career
ThesisEtude du transistor bipolaire npn a double heterojonction si/sige/si par simulations monte-carlo (1992)
Doctoral advisorRené Castagné

Sylvie Retailleau (née Galdin; born 24 February 1965) is a French physicist and politician who has been serving as Minister of Higher Education in the government of successive Prime Ministers Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal since 20 May 2022. She served as president of Paris-Sud University from 2016 to 2022.