The Scientific Board
The Board of Directors set up a Scientific Board, whose nine members are French or foreign scientific experts qualified in the Foundation’s research areas and appointed by the Board of Directors for a renewable period of two years.
The Board of Directors appoints the Chairman of the Scientific Board, for a renewable term of office of two years.
Composition of the Scientific Board (January 27, 2009)
| Dominique DRON | Professor |
ENSMP MEEDDAT |
| Chairwoman of the Scientific Council of the Tuck Foundation | ||
| Jean-Christophe BEZIAT | Head of the Fuel and reforming group, Research and advanced materials studies department |
RENAULT
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| Michel BLOCH | Marketing Manager - Renewable Energy |
AXENS |
| François KALAYDJIAN | Director of Technologies for Sustainable Development |
IFP |
| Pierre MATARASSO | Deputy Scientific Director, in charge of sustainable development at the "Environment and Sustainable Development" scientific department | CIRED
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| Francis MEUNIER | Cold physics chair at CNAM, Director of the French industrial refrigeration institute (IFFI), director of EICnam |
CNAM |
| Alexandre ROJEY | Former director of Sustainable Development at IFP, head of Think Tank IDEES |
Foundation Tuck |
| Dominique BONTE | Research delegate (in charge of programs on the conversion of biomass) to the Research strategy department of Refining & Marketing |
TOTAL Refining Marketing |
| Pierre STENGEL | Environment, natural and cultivated ecosystems scientific director | INRA |
| Georges VERMEERSCH | Prospective and Innovation Director | SOFIPROTEOL |
The Scientific Board assists the Board of Directors in the implementation of the Foundation’s major research programs.
It has the following missions:
| • | to deliberate on the Foundation’s broad directions in terms of R&D and on R&D activity programs prior to their submission to the Board of Directors for approval; |
| • | to submit to the Board of Directors, every year, a proposed action program relative to the dedicated funds, along with calls for projects liable to be financed or co-financed by the Foundation; |
| • | to submit to the Board of Directors the composition of the selection committee for calls for projects; |
| • | to analyze and evaluate the Foundation’s actions concerning major R&D programs; |
| • | to perform specific analysis, evaluation or futurology missions entrusted to it by the Board of Directors. |
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