Marie-Odile Simonnot is the interim director of the Laboratoire Réactions et Génie des Procédés (LRGP) since January 1st 2023. She succeeds Laurent Falk, who has finished his second mandate. In this article, give us an overview of her career and her projects.
Her academic background
An ENSIC engineer and holder of a DEA in process engineering from the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (1987), she obtained her doctorate in February 1991. Her thesis, prepared at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Génie Chimique (LSGC, UPR CNRS), was on preparative ion exchange chromatography applied to proteins. After a six-month post-doc in Karlsruhe, she was recruited as a lecturer at the opening of the European School of Materials Engineering (ESME) in October 1991, with research at the LSGC. She obtained her HDR in 2000 and was appointed professor in 2003 at the EEIGM. She has held various responsibilities at the EEIGM (e.g. discipline leader, board members) and at the LSGC, then at the Laboratoire Réactions et Génie des Procédés (LRGP, created in 2010 by the merger of four laboratories, now a UMR UL CNRS) (e.g. team leader and then research axis leader). She has also been very involved in the Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique sur les Friches Industrielles (GISFI) (member of the board, leader of a working group, from 2000 to 2018). She was a visiting professor at INRS-ETE (Quebec) from 2008 to 2018.