Christine Morin is a senior researcher at Inria. She received her engineering degree in Computer Science from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), of Rennes (France), in 1987 and Master and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Rennes 1 in 1987 and 1990, respectively. In 1998, she got her “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” in Computer Science from the University of Rennes 1.

She is Vice-chairwoman of the Inria Evaluation Committee. Since July 2019, she has been Head of Science at the Inria Centre at Rennes University. From February 2018 to August 2019, she was the director of the European and International Partnerships at Inria. From January 2010 to January 2018, she led the Myriads team working on the design and implementation of autonomous distributed systems at IRISA/Inria centre at Rennes University. Since 2011 she has been an affiliate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where she spent two years in the Data Science and Technology department in 2011-2013.

Her research interests are in distributed clouds, autonomic computing,   cloud security, distributed data management in IoT systems, and green computing.

She has advised 20+ PhD students. In 2006, she co-founded the Kerlabs spin-off developing Kerrighed Linux-based single system image operating system for clusters, a system resulting from her research activities on cluster computing. She coordinated the FP6 XtreemOS on Grid computing (2006-2010) and FP7 Contrail on cloud computing (2010-2014) European integrated projects. She has been involved in several other national, European and international projects and collaborations.

Prizes and Distinctions

Christine Morin is one of the 10 researchers in the 2017 “N2Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications” list recognizing women who have had a major impact in networking and/or communications.

Christine Morin has been made Knight of the National Order of Merit (“Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite“) in 2010 and Knight of the French Legion of Honour (“Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur“) in 2015 by decret of the President of French Republic for her contribution to Higher Education and Research.

In 2014, she was awarded one of the “Les Etoiles de l’Europe” prizes by the French Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research for the coordination of the Contrail European project.

She was awarded the Excellencia prize in the fundamental research category in 2007. This prize rewards young women involved in the creation, development, or application of novel technologies.