Paul Clavin is a French scientist at Aix-Marseille University, working in the field of combustion and statistical mechanics.
For his PhD, he joined Ilya Prigogine in Brussels from 1967 to 1970[3] and then returned to Poitiers.
Paul Clavin moved to Aix-Marseille University in the late 1970s and created the combustion research group.
Clavin served as the chair of the Physical Mechanics at Institut Universitaire de France from 1993 to 2004 and the administrator from 2000 to 2005.
[6] A workshop titled Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics was conducted in 2012 in honor of Clavin's 70th birthday.