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Céline LARGEAU
Biography:
Céline Largeau is currently Project Manager at IRT Jules Verne. A graduate of ISAE-ENSMA Poitiers in 2000, she built up a career spanning over 15 years in the French automotive industry before joining the IRT. She started out at Renault Formula 1 (2000-2007) as a combustion expert, before becoming engine project manager for the Dacia Duster within the Renault group (2007-2011). She then headed the battery cooling team for hybrid and electric vehicles at Tristone Flowtech (2011-2015). Since 2015, she has been Project Manager at IRT Jules Verne, managing and developing the spinning and carbonization processes for the FORCE project, which aims to industrialize biosourced carbon fibers. For over 2 years, she set up and managed the ZEBRA project to demonstrate the technical, economic, and environmental relevance of thermoplastic wind turbine blades on a full-scale demonstrator, with an eco-design approach to enable a high recycling rate
About IRT Jules Verne:
IRT Jules Verne is an industrial research centre dedicated to manufacturing, serving strategic sectors such as aeronautics, automotive, energy, shipbuilding and production equipment. Working in collaborative mode, it develops innovative technologies around five themes: forming and pre-forming processes, assembly and welding, additive manufacturing, industrial mobility and production flexibility. It relies on high-level skills and cutting-edge industrial equipment to guarantee high-performance solutions and rapid deployment in factories, in particular via full-scale demonstrators.