Pierre BRISSON, born in 1955, french nationality, is Engineer and holds a PhD in Physics. Between 1981 and 1985 he has been in charge of experiments embarked as payloads in the European Space Laboratory SPACELAB aboard the american space shuttles COLUMBIA and CHALLENGER. Between 1989 and 2006 he was Head of Technology Transfer and Promotion in the European Space Agency (ESA).

He was appointed at the University Technology Compiègne (UTC) in 2006 as Director for Technology Transfer and Partnerships, Since november 2008, he is the Director of Development at UTC and Président of ProTon Europe, pan-european network of public technology transfer offices in Europe.