Head of the Energy Systems and Environment Department since 2008, Laurence Le Coq was appointed Director of Research at École des Mines de Nantes on January 1.er September 2015. However, she will continue to be responsible for the DSEE until a new manager is appointed.
Laurence Le Coq joined the Ecole des Mines de Nantes in 1998, after obtaining an engineering degree in chemical engineering from UTC Compiègne and a doctorate in process engineering from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble. She holds a degree in process engineering, and over the years has developed considerable expertise in the supervision and management of training and research. Laurence Le Coq became head of the Energy Systems and Environment Department at Ecole des Mines de Nantes in 2008.
At the same time, she has been deputy director of UMR CNRS 6144 GEPEA (since 2012), the agri-food environmental process engineering laboratory associated with CNRS, which brings together process engineering teams from the University of Nantes, the Ecole des Mines de Nantes and ONIRIS. She has also been deputy director of the SPIGA doctoral school since 2010. Author of more than 50 publications, Laurence Le Coq works for the European Commission on the evaluation of scientific dossiers and participates in the evaluation of research laboratories for the Haut Conseil de l'évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur (HCERES). Laurence Le Coq has also overseen the implementation by the Ecole des Mines de Nantes of research platforms and demonstrators, PREVER, dedicated to the study of energy recovery from waste, and SafeAir, for the study of processes for treating air pollutants.
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