MANUTECH-SLEIGHT - Key Persons

François Royer obtained his PhD in optics from INP Grenoble in 2004. In 2006, he became senior lecturer at Telecom Saint-Etienne and joined the LT2C lab (EA 3523, UJM). He has been the co-leader of the 3rd axis "Multi-functional surfaces" of the Labex Manutech-SISE since 2019 and the director of the doctoral school - Sciences, Engineering, Health (ED SIS 488) since 2022. He is now a Professor at Jean Monnet University and researcher at the Hubert Curien lab.

Frederic LORTIE

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Associate Professor at INSA Lyon and Head of Its Materials Science Department

Frédéric Lortie obtained a MSc degree in Chemistry and Chemical Physics of Polymers (1998, University Paris-Est) and continued with a PhD in the field of supramolecular polymers (2001, University Paris-Est). He then worked as a research fellow in CEMS department (University of Minnesota, USA). He joined INSA Lyon in 2003 as Associate Professor and was promoted to a Full Professor position in 2024. His research interests are primarily focused on the design of multiphasic polymer-based materials and composites by combining self-assembly and processing strategies. Since January 2022, Frédéric Lortie has been leading the Materials Science teaching department of INSA Lyon.

Guilhem Mollon

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Civil Engineer
Axis 2 Co - Leader - LaMCoS

Guilhem Mollon graduated as a civil engineer in 2005 and got his teaching fellowship in 2006. He obtianed his PhD in Geotechnical Engineering in 2007 and his first post-doctoral fellowhsips in Grenoble (3SR) and Hong Kong (HKUST). He was recruited by the LaMCoS laboratory, in the Tribology research team, as an Associate Professor in 2013, and has been a visiting researcher at ENS Paris since 2019. Mollon, G., Quacquarelli, A., Ando, E., and Viggiani, G. (2020), "Can friction replace roughness in the numerical simulation of granular materials?", Granular Matter, 22:42

Karine MASENELLI-VARLOT

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Member of the SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Head of the Scientific Committee - MATEIS

Laurence VICO

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Axis 3 Leader - SAINBIOSE

Laurence Vico's research on the skeletal system encompasses the understanding of the mechanical and metabolic deconditioning occurring in extreme (spaceflight and analogs) or disuse (osteoporosis, inactivity) conditions. Such (dys)adaptations include intertwined loops leading to bone loss. Other targets are the effects of pharmaceutical and physical training strategies and their safe and efficient application to frail subjects.

Laurent DUBOST

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Axis 3 Co - Leader - IREIS - HEF Groupe

Marc Sebban

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Axis 2 Leader - LabHC
Professor of Computer Science at Jean Monnet University

Marc Sebban has been a professor of Computer Science at Jean Monnet University (UJM), Saint-Etienne, since 2002. He graduated with a Master of Science degree in Statistics (1992) and a Master of Computer Science degree (ENS Lyon, 1994). He defended his PhD thesis in Machine Learning in 1996. He is today the deputy director of the Hubert Curien laboratory and the coordinator of the international master programme in Machine Learning and Data Mining - MLDM (MSc in Computer Science). Marc Sebban, Richard Nock: A hybrid filter/wrapper approach of feature selection using information theory. Pattern Recognit. 35(4): 835-846 (2002)