Prof. Christian Amatore
Academy of Sciences, Coped, France
Prof. Christian Amatore
Academy of Sciences, Coped, France
Christian Amatore, 72, is Emeritus Professor of CNRS and ENS and Outstanding Professor of Xiamen University, China. He obtained his Habilitation in University Paris Diderot under Prof Saveant’s guidance before moving to the University of Indiana at Bloomington. He returned to France to CNRS and ENS where he held the former position of Louis Pasteur. He is Member of the French Academy of Sciences, Member of the Academia Europaea, Member of The Third World Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and of the Portuguese Academy of Sciences, Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry and of the Chinese Chemical Society, Honorary Member of the Israeli Chemical Society, Distinguished Scientist of the French Chemical Society and Fellow of ISE and ECS. He served as vice-President and President of ISE and was one of the twenty members of the French High Council of Science and Technology, which advised the Presidents of the French Republic. He has been Knighted by the French Republic in the Orders of Merits and of Legion d’Honneur and as Commander of the Order of Academic Palms. He received many important national and international awards and medals among which the Gold Medal of the International Society of Electrochemistry, the Electrochemical Society Plenary Lecturer award, the de Broglie Award from the Lincei, the Nanqiang award from Xiamen University, the Faraday Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Lavoisier Medal from the French Chemical Society.
He published 516 primary publications in top international journals with peer-review accumulating more than 29,000 citations and corresponding to a h-index of 88 (ISI - Web of Knowledge) or more than 37,000 citations and a h-index of 99 (Google Scholar) with an average citations rate larger than 1 250 per year (ISI-WS) or 1 700 (GS) over the past 10 years.
Prof. Patrice Simon
Academy of Sciences, Coped, France
Prof. Olivier Donard
Academy of Sciences, Coped, France
Prof. Olivier Donard
Academy of Sciences, Coped, France
Olivier Donard est directeur de recherche CNRS émérite à l’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour et nouvellement membre de l’Académie des Sciences.
Son domaine d’expertise est la surveillance du cycle global des métaux, en particulier le mercure. Les techniques de chimie analytique et de spectrométrie atomique qu’il a développées, l’aident à étudier leurs structures, jusqu’à différencier les isotopes. Il remonte ainsi l’évolution et le cycle des métaux dans le temps, pour détecter les différences qui permettent de comprendre leur devenir et leur impact environnemental.
Auteur de 308 publications scientifiques à comité de lecture, Olivier Donard a aussi créé deux entreprises en lien avec son domaine d’expertise, Ultra Traces Analyse Aquitaine (UT2A) en 1999 et Advanced Isotopic Analysis (AIA) en 2017.
Prof. Innocent Kamwa
Laval University, Canada
Prof. Innocent Kamwa
Laval University, Canada
Innocent Kamwa, Titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les réseaux électriques durables décentralisés pour les collectivités intelligentes, International Member - National Academy of Engineering (USA), Éditorialiste en chef du IEEE power and Energy magazine.
Innocent Kamwa est professeur titulaire au département de génie électrique et génie informatique de l’Université Laval. Il est aussi Distinguished Visiting Professor à Tsinghua University, Beijing. Jusqu’en 2020, M. Kamwa était chercheur à l’Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec (IREQ), où il s’est spécialisé pendant trois décennies dans la performance dynamique et le contrôle des réseaux électriques. Il s’intéresse actuellement aux microréseaux résilients et autonomes pour l’électrification des transports et la justice énergétique dans un contexte d’adaptation aux météos extrêmes. Sa chaire étudie au niveau théorique et expérimental, les mécanismes, architectures et technologies permettant d’accueillir des millions de ressources énergétiques distribuées dans les réseaux électriques décarbonés.
Prof. Ismael Saadoune
UM6P, Morocco
Prof. Ismael Saadoune
UM6P, Morocco
Dr. Ismael Saadoune, a Full Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, completed his academic journey with a French PhD from the University of Bordeaux in 1992 and a Moroccan PhD from the University Cadi Ayyad UCA-Marrakech in 1996. His dual doctoral pursuits centered on advancing Active Materials for Lithium and Sodium-ion Batteries, offering promising solutions for energy storage challenges.
In 2002, Dr. Saadoune established the Laboratory of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, where he mentored over 100 graduate and 40 Master students. Guiding the research endeavors of 25 PhD candidates, all now active in industry or research laboratories, Dr. Saadoune has left an indelible mark on academic and industrial landscapes.
As the principal investigator, he spearheaded 19 national and 23 international research projects on Battery Materials, demonstrating his commitment to advancing energy storage technologies. His contributions extend beyond academia, as he played pivotal roles in two European Master ERASMUS MUNDUS programs: 'Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion' and 'Functionalized Advanced Materials and Engineering'.
Currently, Dr. Saadoune leads the 'Electrochemical Energy Storage & Conversion' unit within ACER/UM6P, focusing on collaborative initiatives with UM6P ecosystem:
- Development of Battery Materials utilizing African Mineral Resources (P, F, V, Co, Mn).
- Recovery of strategic minerals for energy transition via the recycling of End-of-Life Lithium-ion Batteries.
- Implementation of semi-pilot demonstrators for Lithium-ion Battery production using the 'Pouch Cell' configuration.
- Establishment of rural (Off-grid) and Urban (Electric vehicle) Living Labs, leveraging efficient batteries in projects like the European initiative: Smart Energy Solution for Africa (SESA: https://sesa-euafrica.eu).
Dr. Saadoune's expertise has been sought after globally, with invitations to prestigious universities and research centers including Uppsala University (Sweden), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), ICMM-CSIC (Spain), Jilin University (China), and Bordeaux University (France). His prolific academic output encompasses over 160 articles, conference papers, and project reports, underscoring his significant contributions to the field of electrochemical energy storage and conversion.
Prof. Khaoula Khaless
UM6P, Morocco
Prof. Khaoula Khaless
UM6P, Morocco
Khaoula Khaless holds a PhD in chemistry from the University of Rennes 1, obtained in 2006. She has fifteen years of experience in research project management. She now occupies the position of associate professor in CBS department. Before joining UM6P, she occupied the position of Engineer/Analyst, in “Acid, Process and separation Technologies” Unit, in the R&D Department OCP Group, El Jadida
She is specialist in membrane separation process and their application in the phosphate industry and its derivatives. Her research is mainly focused on phosphoric acid, desalination, phosphogypsum, trace elements, rare earths, new products, water, separation technologies and process in different industrial sectors, in particular the purification and treatment of phosphoric acid.
She has published numerous scientific articles, international patents, and book chapters on these subjects. Since 2021, she has held the position of president of the research commission at CEDoc – CRC, dedicated to obtaining the academic authorization (HU) or authorization to supervise research. Furthermore, she serves as the principal investigator (PI) and Co-principal investigator (Co-PI) in several industrial and academic projects.
Prof. Said Laassiri
UM6P, Morocco
Prof. Said Laassiri
UM6P, Morocco
Dr. Said Laassiri is currently an assistant professor in Heterogenous Catalysis at Chemical & Biochemical Sciences. Green Process Engineering (CBS) Department at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University , Morocco. His current research focuses on the domain of heterogeneous catalysis with a particular emphasis on the elucidation of structure-catalytic activity relationship. The underlying theme is the development of alternative materials (e.g. mixed oxides, nitrides and carbides) as novel catalytic materials with applications in a variety of catalyzed reactions (oxidation reactions, methanation reaction, ammonia synthesis...etc).
Dr, Said Laasssiri graduated with an MSci degree in Chemistry & Chemical Sciences at the University of Poitiers, France in 2009. He carried out his Ph.D. co-jointly at the University of Laval in Quebec – Canada and the University of Poitiers in France. His Ph.D work involved the investigation of structure- redox properties - catalytic activity relationship in oxidation reaction catalysed by hexaaluminate and perovskite mixed oxide (graduation in 2014). Following his Ph.D., Dr. Said Laassiri joined, he joined the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow (UK) working with Pr. J.S.J. Hargreaves as research associate on the catalytic synthesis of ammonia. In 2018, he was awarded “Make our planet great again” grant to develop Chemical looping approach for ammonia generation at ambient conditions at the university of Lille. In 2020, Dr, Said Laassiri joined Mohammed VI Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor in Heterogenous Catalysis
Dr. Charly Gatete
ECOWAS, Ghana
Dr. Charly Gatete
ECOWAS, Ghana
Dr. Charly Gatete is an energy economist with more than 15 years of experience in the energy sector in West Africa. Since 2021, he has been an economist expert at ERERA, where he provides economics analysis and contributes to developing economic regulations within the regional electricity market (REM) development. The ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERERA) is the regulator of regional cross-border trade of electricity in West Africa and the regional regulator of cross border electricity interconnections in West Africa.
Before joining ERERA (GHANA), He was a regional programme officer in charge of energy at an International NGO (NIGER), researcher, and lecturer at the University of Thomas SANKARA (BURKINA FASO). He is the author and co-author of more than ten energy-related scientific publications.
Mouad Dahbi
UM6P, Morocco
Mouad Dahbi
UM6P, Morocco
Mouad Dahbi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science, Energy, and Nanoengineering (MSN) at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Morocco. Dahbi completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry and Electrochemistry in 2013 at the University of Tours, France. Before assuming his role at UM6P, he was an Assistant Professor at Tokyo University of Science in Japan and served as a Project Assistant Professor in the Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries (ESICB) at Kyoto University from 2015 to 2017. He became a faculty member at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in 2017 and has also been a visiting scientist at Argonne National Laboratory in the USA (August 2022). In acknowledgment of his significant contributions to the field of electrochemical energy storage, he received the "IALB Young Researcher Award." Dahbi is author or co-author of over 100 publications, patents, and book chapters, accumulating over 11,651 citations and achieving an H-index of 29. His current research focuses on material science and electrochemistry in electrochemical energy storage including rechargeable Lithium, Sodium, and Redox flow batteries.
