Author Biographies

Marie Dellise is currently part of the French environmental inspection service within the Ministry in charge of ecology. Following a Bsc in biology at the University of Lille, she completed a master’s degree on the sustainable management of pollution at the JUNIA School of Lille. In 2020, she defended her PhD thesis in environmental science and engineering, at Mines Saint-Etienne, on the local application of best available techniques. Following the completion of her thesis, she was hired at the Ministry of Ecology to work on the regulation of the extractive industry and the sectors of the primary processing of mineral raw materials, including in particular the BREFs in the fields of metallurgy and ceramics.
Jonathan Villot is a research professor at Mines Saint-Étienne (Institut Mines Télécom). A member of UMR 5600 Environnement Ville et Société, his research focuses on the development of tools and methods to support sustainable cities. More specifically, since 2008, he has been interested in the topic of the "massification" of energy renovation and the use of digital tools, particularly digital twins, as a catalyst for achieving energy and climate objectives (SNBC, etc.). Engaged in action research in partnership with local stakeholders, he has been supporting the upskilling of building professionals since 2011 as the scientific and educational leader of the specialized master's program on energy efficiency expertise in building renovation. He is a co-founder and scientific director of the company U.R.B.S., which leverages the patented results of his collaborative research, and since 2019 he has been committed to disseminating knowledge on the building stock through the deployment of a geo-community: the National Building Observatory (ONB).
Rodolphe Gaucher graduated as civil engineer from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France, in 1997.He worked for nine years in the fields of environment, health and safety risk management for operators and was in charge of several projects on risk management issues for the French Environment Ministry. From 2008 to 2021, he was appointed as head of the unit for “Clean Technologies” in the Chronic Risks Division of Ineris and managed up to 20 engineers, researchers and PhD students. His team works on several issues in relation with the knowledge and reduction of emissions from industry and technologies, such as, for example, the reduction of micropollutant releases from industry and urban wastewater treatment plants (according to the Water Framework Directive), waste and biomass characterization and valorization (aerobic and anaerobic digestion, biorefineries, pyrolysis processes, etc.) and the development of phytotechnologies. He was personally in charge of the coordination of technical support to the French Environment Ministry regarding the implementation of the Industrial Emissions Directive and, notably, the French representative in the process of reviewing the Best Available Techniques (BAT) reference documents (BREF) lead by the European Commission. Since 2021, he has served as the HR deputy director at Ineris.
Anne Amardeil is a manager of environmental regulatory dossiers within an internal engineering entity at EDF. She has worked on identifying the best available techniques for EDF’s nuclear installations. She holds a double engineering degree from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and ENSTA Paristech.
Valérie Laforest is director of research at Mines Saint-Etienne/IMT and a member of the UMR CNRS 5600 “Environnement Ville Société”. Her research is positioned across two main axes with the aim of developing methodologies to support decision-making for sustainable industries and territories. For more than 25 years, Valérie Laforest has been interested in environmental technologies, having developed expertise on the performance assessment of best available techniques. As a second axis, she seeks to remove barriers to the operationalization of a circular economy by working on the assessment of the potential of a circular economy of territory. As part of her support for socio-economic actors in their transformations, these two lines of research are enriched by new approaches associated with the operationalization of strong sustainability in design processes or via the characterization of low-tech approaches. She is an active member of the Scientific Interest Group EEDEMS, the EcoSD network (for the ecodesign of sustainable systems) and the Quebec Circular Economy Research Network (RRECQ). A teacher for more than 25 years, she is involved in engineering, master's (M2) or specialized master's courses in areas associated with environmental regulations, best available techniques, ecotechnologies, strong sustainability and low-tech, as well as in industrial and territorial ecology.
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