Keynote speakers
Prof. Christophe Caucheteur
Christophe Caucheteur is a Professor at University of Mons (UMONS), Belgium and Senior Research Associate at the F.R.S-FNRS, Belgium. He is the head of the Advanced Photonic Sensors Unit (APS), recipient of an ERC Starting Grant in 2011, and specializes in photonics and optical fiber sensors. He is also the founder of a spin-off company, B-SENS, since 2016.
Title : Opportunities of wind turbine monitoring with optical fiber sensors.
Prof. Jean-Michel Nunzi
Graduated from Physique-Chimie Engineering School, ParisParis, 1982. He joined l’Ecole Polytechnique for a PhD on the nonlinear optics of surface plasmons. He was hired as hired as a full-time Researcher in Organic Photonics at the Atomic Energy Commission (Saclay) in 1984 an and became head of the Organic Devices Lab in 1995. He joined the Department of Physics at University of Angers as Professor in 2000, building the Plastic Solar Cells Technology Research Team. He moved to Queen’s University on a Canada Research Chair in 2006 with a dual appointment in both the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Chemistry.
He is also an invited professor at Université de Lorraine (France) since 2012, a research professor at University of Kanazawa (Japan) since 2019, and an adjunct professor at Shoolini University (India) since 2021.
He studies organic and nano-photonics, self-organization, the processing and physics of nanomaterials and devices for life, energy, and sustainability, with above 340 peer-reviewed publications and 9000 citations in the Web of Science.
Prof. Damien Ernst
He received the MSc. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from the University of Liège, Belgium, in 1998 and 2003, respectively.
He is currently a full professor at the University of Liège and a visiting professor at Télécom Paris. His research interests include electrical energy systems and reinforcement learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence.
He is also the CSO of Haulogy, a company developing intelligent software solutions for the energy sector. He has co-authored more than 300 research papers and two books. He has also won numerous awards for his research and, among which the prestigious 2018 Blondel Medal.
He is also regularly consulted by industries, governments, international agencies and the media for its deep understanding of the energy transition.
For more information visit: blogs.ulg.ac.be/damien-ernst/
