Frederick Bordry is an engineer; he graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Électronique, d’Électrotechnique, d’Informatique et d’Hydraulique de Toulouse (ENSEEIHT) and has a doctorate in energy conversion from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (INPT). After teaching for two years at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis (Brazil), he worked as a research professor in Toulouse before joining CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) in 1986.

Since 1994, he has been involved in the design and construction of the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator (LHC) which led to the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012. He has managed many large projects involving significant human and material resources and covering a wide range of advanced technologies from superconductivity, power conversion, cryogenics, vacuum systems, coatings and surface treatments to complex process control.
He has always been a firm believer in the importance of international exchanges in the cultural, political and scientific fields and has reflected on the issues of education, research and multilingualism. He encourages the pooling of human and financial resources, particularly at a European level, and champions the role of science in peace and development.

In January 2014, he became CERN’s director of accelerators and technology and is responsible for CERN’s entire accelerator complex, with a particular focus on the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) and the development of post-LHC projects and technologies.