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Jean-Jacques Favier (Doctor of
Philosophy|Ph.D.)

Payload Specialist (France)

==Personal data==
Born April 13, 1949, in Kehl, Germany. Married to
the former Michele Jean. Four children. He enjoys
downhill skiing, tennis, wind-surfing, and
archeology.

==Education==
* Attended primary and secondary schools in
Strasbourg, France
* 1971: Received an engineering degree from the
National Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble
* 1977: Earned a Ph.D. in engineering from the
Mining School of Paris
* 1977: Earned a Ph.D. in metallurgy and physics
from the University of Grenoble

==Organizations==
* Research Engineer, Commissaniat a l’Energie
Atomique (CEA), 1976-1979
* Head Solidification Group 1970-1986
* Head of Laboratory 1986-1989
* Head Solidification and Crystal Growth Service,
1989 to 1993
* Cons. European Space Agency (ESA)
* Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES),
Paris 1983 to present
* Astronaut Candidate CNES, Paris 1985 to present
* Member of Space Station User Panel of ESA.

==Special honors==
* Recipient Zellidja Association 2nd prize, French
Academy Literature 1970, E. Brun Price Award
French Academy Sciences
* Member of International Organization of Crystal
Growth
* Member of American Association of Crystal Growth
* Societe Francaise de Metallurgie
* Groupe Francais de Croissance Cristalline
(Committee Chairman)
* Visiting Professor at University of Alabama in
Huntsville (UAH) (1994-95)
* Member of the Space Science Committee of the
European Science Foundation (ESF)
* Several patents on crystal growth processes,
furnaces and insitu diagnosis
* Published more than 80 research articles in
refereed scientific journals and books.

==Experience==
Dr. Favier is currently the Advisor of the
Director of the Material Science Research Center
(CEREM) at the French Atomic Energy Commission
(CEA) and is presently detached to CNES. He
proposed the MEPHISTO program, a collaborative
project between the French Space Agency and NASA,
and has developed many other scientific projects
in collaboration with the United States since
1985. He is the principal investigator (P.I.) for
a MEPHISTO materials processing experiment, which
made its debut on the United States Microgravity
Payload in 1992 and 1994 and is scheduled for
subsequent Space Shuttle flights, the next being
STS-75 in 1996. He has been a CNES payload
specialist candidate since 1985. He has been P.I.
of more than 10 space experiments in collaboration
with ESA, NASA, and the Russians.

Dr. Favier was assigned as an alternate payload
specialist on STS-65/IML-2, the second
International Migrogravity Laboratory mission, and
supported the mission as a Crew Interface
Coordinator (CIC/APS) from the Payload Operations
Control Center (POCC) at the Marshall Space Flight
Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Dr. Favier flew on STS-78 and has logged over 405
hours in space. STS-78 Space Shuttle
Columbia|Columbia (June 20 to July 7, 1996) was a
16-day Life and Microgravity Spacelab mission. It
included studies sponsored by ten nations and five
space agencies, was the first mission to combine
both a full microgravity studies agenda and a
comprehensive life science investigation, and
served as a model for future studies on board the
International Space Station. STS-78 orbited the
Earth 271 times, covering 7 million miles in 405
hours, 48 minutes.

==Current assignment==
Dr. Favier was assigned as an alternate payload
specialist on STS-65/IML-2, the second
International Migrogravity Laboratory mission, and
supported the mission as a Crew Interface
Coordinator (CIC/APS) from the Payload Operations
Control Center (POCC) at the Marshall Space Flight
Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He is currently
assigned as a payload specialist on STS-78/LMS-1,
a Life Microgravity Spacelab mission.
AUGUST 1996

Source:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/PS/favier.html

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