About the conference > Invited speakersWe are delighted to announce the invited speakers for the TAD conference. A new speaker will be revealed each week starting Monday, January 27th. Stay tuned to discover the experts who will share their knowledge and experiences. You will find the complete bibliographies of each speaker following their announcement.
Bioresources session Academic Keynote Speaker : David C. Dayton from RTI International Dr. David C. Dayton is a Senior Fellow (Chemistry) at RTI International with 30 years of project management and research experience in biomass thermochemical conversion R&D projects involving biomass combustion, gasification, and pyrolysis. His current research activities include catalytic biomass pyrolysis technology development, biocrude separations and upgrading, synthesis gas conversion, cleanup, and conditioning, and experimental programs relating to biomass thermochemical conversion for biofuels and bioproducts. These R&D activities are focused on expanding integrated biorefinery technology development activities for advanced biofuel production. Prior to coming to RTI, Dr. Dayton managed biomass thermochemical conversion projects for the U.S. Department of Energy at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and was a postdoctoral research associate at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a B.S. in Chemistry from Dickinson College. Dr. Dayton has published over 70 technical papers, book chapters, and government reports. He recently co-authored a book entitled “Analytical Methods for Biomass Characterization and Conversion” and has adjunct faculty positions in the Energy and Environmental Systems Department at North Carolina A&T State University and in the Forest Biomaterials Department, College of Natural Resources, North Carolina State University.
"Don’t focus on what you can measure but what you should measure. The chemistry of bio-derived liquids is extremely complex so select the best analytical method (or methods) available to you. Connecting molecular-level details to process chemistry has tremendous potential to accelerate technology development."
Industrial Keynote Speaker : Sylvain Verdier from Haldor Topsoe Sylvain Verdier is a Chemical Engineer with an MSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pau, France, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark. With close to 20 years of experience at Topsoe, he has held various positions in R&D, Product Development, and Marketing. Currently, Sylvain works as a Senior Strategy Manager, providing guidance to internal and external stakeholders on managing the energy transition with focus on transport fuels. His expertise lies in technologies, regulations, sustainability, and feedstocks for renewable fuel production, particularly in the road, aviation, and marine sectors. In addition to his strategic role, Sylvain actively contributes to Topsoe's thought leadership activities, hosting the 'Fuel for Thought' podcast that has exceeded 2 million downloads earlier this year."
Hydrogen session Academic Keynote Speaker : Christophe Coutanceau from the University of Poitiers Christophe Coutanceau is a professor at the University of Poitiers. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Poitiers in Applied Chemistry, specializing in electrocatalysis, at the Laboratoire de Catalyse en Chimie Organique in 1994 under the supervision of Prof. Claude Lamy and Dr. Pierre Crouigneau. He is currently a lecturer in Physical Chemistry and a researcher at the Institut de Chimie des Milieux et Matériaux de Poitiers (IC2MP, Université de Poitiers-CNRS). His research activities cover the development of sustainable methods for the synthesis of supported electrocatalytic nanomaterials for applications in fuel cells, electrolysis cells and electrosynthesis reactors operating at low temperatures. In this context, he is interested in the electro-conversion of bioresources into value-added products with the co-production of clean hydrogen. He has authored or co-authored over 160 papers in international A-ranked journals (h-factor = 61 (scopus and WoS) and 70 (Google Scholar) and over 12,000 citations), 6 patents and over 60 invited lectures. He has taken part in numerous international hydrogen collaborations in Europe, Canada, the USA, Japan, Brazil, etc. From 2017 to 2022, his interest in energy-related themes led him to assume the position of referent chairman of the ANR “sustainable, clean, safe and efficient energy” evaluation committee. From 2020 to 2024, he was in charge of the “stationary applications” axis of the CNRS hydrogen research federation (FRH2), and since January 2025 has been in charge of its “international relations” axis. Since 2020, he has been a member of the PEPR Decarbonated Hydrogen Program Committee. He is also a member of the AFC TCP of the International Energy Agency (Advanced Fuel Cell - Technology Collaboration Programme - Annex 31: PEFC - Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells).
"Analytical methods are essential for the development of hydrogen technologies at all scales: i) for the synthesis and evaluation of materials and components, ii) for the diagnosis and even prediction of the health status of fuel cells and electrolyzers, at both the material and system levels, iii) to increase their lifetimes, iv) to check gas purity, and v) to ensure safety in case of hydrogen leakage, etc.”
End of life of plastic session Industrial Keynote Speaker : Félicie Pachot from Citeo
"Our goal is to promote eco-design decisions and secure recycling loops. Analytical chemistry is essential to anticipate the impacts of substances brought into the recycling process, as the main challenge is to detect and quantify all substances of concern at different stages."
Adam Manssouri from Citeo A Materials Engineer with a double degree in Polymer Engineering in 2019, he worked as an HSE Engineer for Airbus (as a subcontractor) for 1 year. During the COVID period, he joined the Agence Régionale de la Santé des Hauts-de-France to support health establishments, local authorities and companies in the management and operational implementation of risk control. In 2022, he joined the “TEAM2” competitiveness cluster to deploy circular economy principles through innovation and support players wishing to set up collaborative projects in the development of circular economy loops. Since January 2025, he has held the position of Recycling Project Manager in charge of “Energy recovery”, “Management of sorting rejects and small packaging”, as well as monitoring projects relating to the Recycling Call for Projects launched by Citeo's Recycling Department, with the aim of improving recycling rates, recovery and securing outlets to ensure the circularity of materials and the lowest environmental impact.
"As part of Citeo's Recycling team, we aim to optimise recycling by improving current recovery processes and developing new ones. Through analytical chemistry, we can understand and improve recycling processes in the analysis of domestic packaging waste."
Photovoltaic solar energy session Academic Keynote Speaker : Frédéric Sauvage from CNRS Frédéric Sauvage is a research director at CNRS. After completing a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Jean-Marie Tarascon in 2006, he joined the team of Prof. Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier at Northwestern University (USA), where he worked between 2006 and 2007 on the synthesis of new materials for primary batteries and new transparent conductive oxides. He then joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland) under the supervision of Prof. Michael Graetzel until 2010 to improve the efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells. He then joined CNRS as a research fellow. He founded a new research theme around solar energy conversion (Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis) within the Laboratory of Reactivity and Solid State Chemistry (CNRS UMR7314) in Amiens. His research focuses on breakthrough topics, balancing fundamental research and valorization. He is the originator of several new patented and valorized concepts such as photorechargeable batteries, transparent and colorless photovoltaic cells, or the production of green hydrogen from sugars. He is the co-founder of two CNRS spin-offs that valorize his work: G-Lyte in 2019 on the development of PV cells converting artificial light energy inside buildings and CrystalEnergy very recently on the industrial development of electrogenic glazing. In 2023, he received the European ERC Advanced Grant excellence scholarship for a research program aimed at creating ultra-short X-ray pulses in the laboratory to study structural dynamics during light absorption and understand the origin of the very first degradation mechanism in these materials (GEMINI project).
" At the core of my research, advanced analytical chemistry unveils how PV materials behave undeer external stressors."
Electrical storage and batteries session Academic Keynote Speaker : Christian Masquelier from University of Picardie Christian Masquelier joined Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France, as a Full Professor of Chemistry. He has been working for >30 years on the crystal chemistry of sodium ion conductors and positive electrode materials for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries, in particular on operando X-ray or neutron diffraction of phosphate-based positive electrodes. He is the co-author of ~180 publications and 25 international patents on important materials in this field (LiFePO4, Na3V2(PO4)2F3, Li3PS4, Na2V2(PO4)3,…). He served as the Director of the Doctoral School of UPJV Amiens, as the Director of the ALISTORE European Network and as the President of the “Chemistry of Materials” Section of the French National Council of Universities (CNU33). He is presently a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, the Coordinator of the DESTINY Marie Curie PhD project and the Director of the Laboratoire de Réactivité et de Chimie des Solides (LRCS, UMR CNRS 7314) in Amiens, France.
"I love looking at how materials behave within a battery, in particular through operando X-ray or neutron
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