Topics: Environmental biorefinery, bioeconomly waste and water resource recovery, modeling and control of bioprocesses

Contact

jean-philippe.steyer_at_inrae.fr

Research axis: 

SAMI

Education

• 1998: Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR) from the University of Perpignan, France. Title: Modelling, Control and Diagnosis of Biological Wastewater Treatment Processes
• 1991: PhD in Applied Process Control from the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France. Title: Qualitative Approach of Physical Systems: A Real Time Expert System for the Control of a Biological Process. This Ph.D. was awarded by the CNRS as one of the best Ph.D. theses in Applied Process Control in France in 1991
• 1988: “Diplôme d'Études Approfondies” (equivalent of a Master of Science) in Automation, Industrial Computing and Signal Processing in the “Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systèmes” (LAAS), CNRS in Toulouse, France. Title: Expert Systems for bioprocesses
• 1987: Bachelor of Science in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Automation at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France

Main research positions held

• 1994 – …: Researcher at the Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement (LBE), INRAE, Narbonne
• 2009 – 2016: Director of the Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l’Environnement (LBE), INRAE, Narbonne
• 2005-2006: Marie Sklodowska-Curie scientific exchange at the Technical University of Denmark, Environment & Resources Department, Lyngby, Denmark. Topics: Modelling and control of anaerobic digestion processes for bioenergy (hydrogen) production
• 1993: Process Engineer, Sanofi, Aramon, France. Topics: Development of a real time expert system for the control of a pharmaceutical production process. This expert system was awarded as the "best application of Artificial Intelligence for a Process Industry" by the French Chemical Engineering Foundation
• 1992: Post-Doc at the Chemical Process Modelling and Control Research Centre, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA. Topics: Agitated Bioreactors – Coupling of Mixing and Kinetics Models

Main administrative positions held

• 2024 – …: Elected to the “Académie d'Agriculture de France” as a corresponding member for section 5: Interactions between the environment and living organisms
• 2021 – …: Member of the Executive Committee of the National Program “Ferments of the Future” Grand Challenge (48 M€ for 10 years)
• 2020 – …: Co-Director of the INRAE metaprogramme BETTER: Bioeconomy for Urban Areas – In charge of the scientific monitoring and strategy of the interdisciplinary program – 155 people involved
• 2020 – 2024:    Deputy Leader of the INRAE Division TRANSFORM: “Science for Food, Bioproducts and Waste Engineering” – In charge of the scientific animation and communication of the division – 28 laboratories, 600+ people

Recent publications

Cf. https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=IOCEqNIAAAAJ&hl=fr