LOCOMOTIVE FINAL CONFERENCE

Hamburg 5-6 June 2007

Hervé Dexpert

General Secretary of the Scientific Advisory Board Midi-Pyrénées Regional Council

Dr Hervé Dexpert is Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. As a scientist involved in several fields of Materials Science, he has been concerned for many years by the understanding of the relationships between the description at the nanometer scale of different classes of materials (rare earth compounds, heterogeneous catalysts, amorphous phases) and their macroscopic physico-chemical properties. He developed structural and electronic investigations by electron microscopy and X rays absorption in several research centres, from Paris (CNRS Rare Earth Laboratory and French Institute of Petroleum), Cambridge (Cavendish Laboratory), Orsay (National Centre for Synchrotron Radiation) to Toulouse (Materials Centre). He has been the supervisor of many PhD thesis and the head of two large laboratories (LURE-Orsay and then CEMES-Toulouse).

Since 2000, he is the General Secretary of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Region Midi-Pyrénées. This Committee of 80 members gathers representatives of academic institutions (Universities, Research Centres) and industrial companies (SMEs and large enterprises). He has in charge the promotion of the activities linking research, innovation, technology transfer and economic development. To fill this objective, he participates to different programmes and tools as regional calls for projects, grants supports for PhD students and post-docs or to the establishment of inter-regional actions at the French and European (ERA NET) level.

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