Biography :

Véronique Michaud leads the Laboratory for Processing of Advanced Composites at EPFL, in Switzerland. She graduated in 1987 from Ecole des Mines in Paris with an engineering degree, in 1991 from MIT with a PhD in Materials Engineering, and obtained a Research Habilitation from INPG in France in 1994. Her fields of research address fundamental aspects of composite materials processing, often including economic and environmental aspects to lower the overall product footprint, as well as the development of smart materials and structures. She is co-founder of the start-up CompPair Technologies SA, which was created in 2020, served as Associate Dean for Education for the faculty of Engineering from 2017-2023, European Editor since 2023 for the journal Composites Part A, and a member of the European scientific counsel of Alliance for European Flax-Linen and Hemp.

About EPFL :

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