Alain Fuchs is a Swiss-born French Doctor of Science and chemistry Professor, specialized in molecular simulation. He served as the president of Chimie ParisTech - PSL from 2006 to 2010. He has served as the president of the French National Centre for Scientific Research from 2010 to 2017.' He became an Officer of the Legion of Honour in 2014.

Chimie ParisTech, officially École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris and also known as ENSCP or Chimie Paris, is an engineering school and a constituent college of PSL Research University specialised in chemical science. It was founded in 1896 within the University of Paris and is located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris.