FREDERIC CHERQUI
Frédéric is Associate Professor at the University Lyon 1 and INSA Lyon, France. He is also Honorary Senior Fellow at The University of Melbourne. He has 15+ years research experience in urban water management, performance assessment, asset management and decision aid methods. He is currently working on asset management of Nature-Based Solutions dedicated to stormwater management, and on the development of low-cost monitoring systems for water infrastructure. Frederic is vice-chair of an international working group dedicated to Urban Drainage Asset Management, and is the co-leader of the Nature-based Solution working group of the Water Europe Association.
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THIERRY CORREGE
Thierry is the Regional Director of the CNRS Representative Office in Oceania. Before that, he was the Science and Higher Education Attaché for the Embassy of France to Australia during more than 2 years. He has been also Professor of Earth and Marine Sciences at the University of Bordeaux and deputy director of the EPOC (Continental and Oceanic Paleoenvironments and Environments) laboratory (U. Bordeaux/CNRS). He gained a PhD in geology from ANU in 1993, then joined the IRD (French National Research Institute of Sustainable Development) with postings in France, New Caledonia and Australia, before moving on to the University of Bordeaux. He has published more than sixty scientific papers on tropical paleoclimatology and the El Niño phenomenon.
JEAN-LOUIS BOBET
JL BOBET has completed his PhD at the age of 25 years from University of Bordeaux France in the field of materials science. After a post doctoral position in Japan, he became Associate Professor in France and became full professor at the age of 37. He was the head of the chemistry departement from 2014 to 2019. He has published more than 160 papers in reputed journals and is the co-inventor of 4 patents. He has been invited researcher at Université du Québec à Trois Rivières (Canada) and Universitad Federal do ABC (Brazil). He established collaborations with Japan, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, USA, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia and Lebanon. His main research activity is on Hydrogen storage in metal hydrides (from the last 25 years) and production by hydrolysis of magnesium (from the last 7 years). He study the relationship between crstal structure and properties.
JEAN-FRANCOIS HOCQUETTE
Jean-François is Research Director and Scientific Officer in charge of International Relationships for Australia and New-Zealand of INRAE (the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment). His research interests concern muscle biology, genomics and consumer studies as relevant to muscle growth or beef eating quality. He was leader of the research team “Muscle Growth and Metabolism” (1999-2006), and Director of the Herbivore Research Unit (172 staff, 2006-2010). He has been working for the French High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES) from 2012 to 2021. He is now president of the French Association for Animal Production. He was awarded twice by the American Society of Animal Sciences (2014 and 2021). He has organized the World Congress of Animal Science in Lyon in 2023.
LAURENT BOURDIER
Laurent is Vice-President for International Affairs at the University of Limoges, France, since January 2021.
Previously, he had the role of Head of the International office of the IUT du Limousin for 15 years, and Unilim coordinator for English-speaking partnerships from 2015 to 2021.
Laurent has worked, over the last 15 years, with a number of Australian companies and institutions offering our students internships at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
VITTORIO SANSALONE
Dr Vittorio Sansalone is professor of mechanics at the Multiscale Modeling and Simulation laboratory (MSME) of the Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC). His expertise is in the broad area of mechanics of materials and structures. The overarching goal of his research activity is to apply engineering sciences to healthcare. He leads fundamental and applied research in biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system (patient-specific modelling and simulation, growth and remodelling of living tissues, structure-property relationships, and uncertainty quantification). He coordinates the research activities of the Biomaterials group of the CNRS IRP Coss&Vita and of the Modelling section of the CNRS federation IMOA on osteoarticular engineering and mechanobiology.