Jean-Jacques Favier
	French Astronaut (Payload Specialist) Deputy Director for Space Technology at CNES Toulouse, France

PERSONAL DATA
Born April 13, 1949, in Kehl, Germany. Married, four children. He enjoys downhill skiing, tennis, wind-surfing, and archeology.

EDUCATION
Received an engineering degree from the National Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble in 1971 and earned a Ph.D. in engineering from the Mining School of Paris and a Ph.D. in metallurgy and physics from the University of Grenoble in 1977.

ORGANIZATIONS
Research Engineer, Commissariat à 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. Astronaut Candidate CNES, 1985. Advisor of the Director of Advanced Technology at CEA (1997 to 1999). Deputy Director with CNES since September 1999.
Appointed as ESA / SSUP Chairman (Space Station Users Panel) in 2000.
He has been P.I. of more than 10 space experiments in collaboration with ESA, NASA, and the Russians.

SPECIAL HONORS
E. Brun Price Award French Academy Sciences (1988). Member of International Organization of Crystal Growth. Visiting Professor at University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).
(1994-95). M. Dassault Grand Price Award French Academy of Sciences (1997) Former Member of the Space Science Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF). Several patents on crystal growth processes, furnaces and in-situ diagnosis. Published more than 130 research articles in scientific journals and books.
NASA Space Flight Medal (1996). Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (1997)

ASSIGNMENT WITH NASA
Dr. Favier was assigned as an alternate payload specialist on STS-65/IML-2, the second International Microgravity 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. Assigned as a payload specialist on STS-78/LMS-1, a Life Microgravity Spacelab mission. He flew on the Space Shuttle Columbia from June 20 to July 7 1996, the longest Shuttle mission so far.

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