Keynote Speakers

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Dr Mostapha TARFAOUI Professor at ENSTA Bretagne and expert in "Nanotechnology and multifunctional materials" Author of +93 peer-reviewed articles and + 200 papers in international conferences. Supervision of +50 students in the field of materials and mechanics Expert for research projects funded by the European Union, local authorities, DGA ... Referent of +20 international scientific journals. Prize: "The Peer Prize for Climate", "French Navy, Amirale Daveluy", "University research competition and Innovation "," Innovation in Science and Technology of the Francophonie "," Future Projects 2018 - BPGO ". Member of several scientific associations. Project leader of several advanced industrial projects (WINFLO, PyWec, Bombardier Project ...).

His research are currently focused on 3 themes. The first is the integration of nanomaterials into composite structures to improve their mechanical, thermal and electrical performance. The second concerns multi-scale theoretical and numerical modelling of multiphysically coupled materials such as intelligent materials and structures. in addition he work on the durability and repair of composite structures. And finally on the study of composites performance for marine renewable energies such as wind power, tidal turbine and wave energy. The published works have contributed significantly to answering scientific issues related to the use of composite materials in different sectors of activity.

 

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 Dr. Abdessamad Faik (PhD, Univ.Basque Country,Spain, 2009). His PhD focused on synthesis, structural study and phase transitions at non-ambient conditions of perovskite materials. He has an extensive experience in synthesis of new compounds by different methods and a strong knowledge in X-ray and neutron diffraction.

He has held a Post-doctoral fellow for 14 months at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Orleans (France) in the domain of thermal storage for concentrated solar power plants where he has studied and developed innovative and original materials for sensible thermal energy storage.

His second Post-doctoral position was held at CIC energiGUNE for 20 months, with a stay as a guest scientist during the first year at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Stuttgart (Germany). Here he studied and developed new materials for thermochemical energy storage.

He then worked at the Research Institute of Solar Energy and New Energies (IRESEN) in Rabat (Morocco) as a head of Thermal Systems Department where he has participated in several academic and industrial projects.

 

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Prof. Abdelilah Benyoussef, Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research, Morocco.

Prof. Abdelilah Benyoussef received his “Doctorat d’état” degree from the Paris-Sud University in 1983. He is a permanent member of the Moroccan Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology, since 2006. He is associate professor in the materials and nanomaterials center of the Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research. He is National coordinator of the Competences Pole of Condensed Matter and Systems Modeling. He is also an editor in chief of the Moroccan Journal of Condensed Matter. He is President of the Moroccan Society of Statistical Physics and Condensed Matter. He has been visiting professor in many research centers, laboratories and Universities in Belgium, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Tunisia, and United states. The main interest topics of Abdelilah Benyoussef are Ab initio calculation and Monte carlo method in modeling and simulation of new materials for renewable energy; Magnetism and phase transition in condensed matter; complex systems and critical self-organization in statistical physics. He is a co-author of more than 400 research publications and book chapters and about 100 conference presentations including numerous invited papers and talks. He has co-chaired or co-organized several international conferences. He holds a number of patents and supervised 40 postgraduate research candidates.

 

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 Prof. Ismael Saadoune, FST, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco.

  Ismael SAADOUNE, Full Professor in the University Cadi Ayyad (UCA) since 2000, was born in Casablanca in 1965 and graduated from the University of Bordeaux, France (French PhD) and the University Cadi Ayyad of Marrakech, Morocco (Moroccan PhD). These Two PhDs were focused on Material Science with the specific research topic ‘Lithium-ion Batteries as efficient energy storage system’.

 In 2002, He created the Laboratory of Materials and Environmental Chemistry in UCA. More than 100 graduate and 40 Master students were hosted in his Lab. 14 PhD Students have been under his supervision, all of them are now involved in the Industry or in research laboratories. He is the principal investigator of 8 national and 12 international research projects. He is involved in two European Master ERASMUS MUNDUS: ‘Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion’ and ‘Functionalized Advanced Materials and Engineering’.

Professor Ismael SAADOUNE was recently received an award from Tokyo University of Science, Japan as a result of his intensive activity on lithium ion batteries.
He has authored/co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed, conference papers, and project reports. He is currently a member of editorial boards for three journals and reviewer of more than 100 research papers. His publications have received more than 3600 citations and his Hirsch index is h = 14.
Pr I. Saadoune has been visiting professor in many universities and research institutes within international scientific collaborations (Germany, Spain, Japan, France, Sweden, South Korea, USA).

 

 

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 Dr. Mohamed CHAKIR is R&D Researcher in “ADVANCED BATTERIES UNIT” at Renault S.A.S. His mission is to develop a new energy storage solutions for EV, xEV applications with a focus on the Li-ion and Post Lithium ion technologies. Before joining Renault in 2011, Dr. CHAKIR was a Materials Scientist and Battery Engineer at ENERDEL, INDIANA, USA, since 2008. He has extensive experience working with multiple partners; Laboratories, government and industry in applying battery research for different applications. His research interests deal with high power and high energy lithium ion batteries, sulfur batteries and sodium batteries for transportation applications; synthesis and design of battery materials, electrolytes and additives; scale up of battery materials and cells; multi-scale range characterization of battery components and interfaces; and diagnostics and probing of aging phenomena in batteries. Dr. CHAKIR received Ph.D. Degree (2003) and Master’s degree (1996) in Materials Science and Solid State Chemistry from Hassan II University of Casablanca (Morocco) followed by Postdoctoral experiences in ICMCB and CIRIMAT laboratories. Dr. CHAKIR has 20 years’ experience in inorganic chemistry, supercapacitors and Li-ion batteries. Histhree years’ experience in large Lithium ion batteries manufacturing in USA (Enerdel) allowed him to work in pilot scale and mass production environments. Actually, his is a responsible of many project in Renault as High Energy Li-ion batteries development and All Solid state batteries.

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Pr. Jones ALAMI is a professor at UM6P and Director of the Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering (MSN) since December 2016. He holds a PhD in Plasma physics and a PhD in layer physics fine from Linköping University in Sweden. He was Post PhD student at Aachen University in Germany and Joint-Professor at the Chinese Academy of Science in Changhai, and later Director of Research and innovation in large manufacturing companies coating systems

 

 

 

 

 

 

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