Recording
Agenda
- Tatiana Panteli, Head of EuroTech Brussels Office
- Matteo Gatti, Senior Researcher, Irradiated Solids Lab, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and Lead of the EuroTech Working Group on EU-Africa collaboration
Ahmed Maalel, Regional Representative for EURAXESS Africa
Showcase presentations, followed by a panel discussion
- Hicham El Habti, President, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic
- Walter Timo de Vries, Professor Land Management and Academic Coordinator of TUM.Africa, Technical University of Munich
- Claire Morel, Head of Unit – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, European Commission
- Matteo Gatti, Senior Researcher, Irradiated Solids Lab, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and Lead of the EuroTech Working Group on EU-Africa collaboration
- Andreas Mortensen, Associate Vice President for Research, EPFL
Maram Ali Ahmed, Postdoctoral Fellow at École Polytechnique/National Ribat University/Al Neelain University
Panel discussion
- Hélène Charton, Policy Officer, Directorate-General for International Partnerships, European Commission
- Vanessa Miani, Policy Analyst Asia, Africa, MENA and External Relations, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission
- Emmanuel Nakouné, Scientific Director, Institut Pasteur de Bangui
- Mariana Rufino, Chair of Livestock Systems, Technical University of Munich
- Kirsten Thomsen, Head of Research Secretariat, DTU Aqua, Technical University of Denmark
Our expert speakers
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Maram Ali Ahmed
Postdoc at École Polytechnique/National Ribat University/Al Neelain University Khartoum
Recently a postdoctoral fellow conducting theoretical spectroscopy research in LSI-Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France, has a PhD in Materials Science from Al-Neelain University, and Assistant Professor at the National Ribat University in Khartoum Sudan.
Maram Ali Ahmed
Postdoc at École Polytechnique / National Ribat University / Al Neelain University Khartoum
Hélène Charton
Policy Officer, Directorate-General for International Partnerships, European Commission
Hélène Charton has been working at INTPA (unit G3, education, youth and culture) as National Expert for the last for years. She is a senior researcher at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche scientifique) in France. She had conducted most of her research in Africa on international education policy mainly.
Hélène Charton
Policy Officer, Directorate-General for International Partnerships, European Commission
Walter Timo de Vries
Professor Land Management and Academic Coordinator of TUM.Africa, Technical University of Munich
The research interests of Professor de Vries include smart and responsible land management, urban and rural development, public restrictions cadastres and capacity development for land policy. He supervises doctoral candidates dealing with spatial development strategies, land tenure arrangements, spatial justice, nomadic-pastoralist land tenure and land consolidation amongst others. He is working on a theory and framework for ‘Human Geodesy’.
Professor de Vries acquired a geodetic engineering degree from the Technical University of Delft in 1988, and completed his PhD at Rotterdam He has worked in international projects in Asia, Africa and South America, with UNITAR in Geneva until 1994, and with the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) at the University of Twente from 1994 till 2015. He was appointed to his chair position at TUM in 2015. He is the director of TUM's Master and PhD programs in Land Management and Land Tenure, serves as Dean of Studies of the programs Geodesy and Geoinformatics and as academic coodinator for TUM.Africa. He is a member of the German Geodetic Commisison and member of the Bayern Academy of Rural Space.
Walter Timo de Vries
Professor Land Management and Academic Coordinator of TUM.Africa, Technical University of Munich
Hicham El Habti
President, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic
Hicham El Habti is the President of University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) since October 2020, after being appointed as Secretary General in November 2017.
With a combination of both corporate as well as education management and administration skills and leadership capabilities, he continues fostering organizational development, leading formulation and implementation of the university’s strategic vision and transformation aspirations, promoting the implementation of effective procedures and institutional reforms and building impactful collaborations and linkages at the local and international levels.
Hicham El Habti has extensive education, experience and background in Applied Mathematics and Economics. Hicham El Habti also holds an engineering degree from l’Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Economics, Management and Finance.
He joined OCP Group in January 2013 where he has served in various positions before being appointed Deputy General Secretary. Prior to joining OCP Group, he has undertaken several strategic and managerial positions including piloting strategic and operational projects, financial risk management, managing investments and providing consultancy services and guidance to leading companies in Morocco and France.
Hicham El Habti
President, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic
Matteo Gatti
Senior Researcher, Irradiated Solids Lab, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Matteo Gatti is a theoretical physicist in the field of computational materials science. After studies and research activities in Italy, France and Spain, since 2012 he has worked as CNRS researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique and at the Synchrotron SOLEIL in France. He is Research Team Leader of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility and he contributes to training and collaboration activities within the African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESMA) since 2014.
Matteo Gatti
Senior Researcher, Irradiated Solids Lab, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Ahmed Maalel
Regional Representative for EURAXESS Africa
Dr. Ahmed MAALEL is an Associate Professor at the University of Sousse, Tunisia. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2015 and his Habilitation to Direct Research (HDR) in 2022. From 2017 to 2021, Dr. Maalel served as the Horizon 2020 National Contact Point for Information & Communication Technologies (NCP ICT) and Horizon Europe NCP (Cluster 4: digital) at the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
Since 2022, Dr. Maalel has been the Regional Representative for EURAXESS Africa. Through EURAXESS activities, he organizes events at local and regional levels and contributes to the network's attractiveness. Within EURAXESS Africa, he facilitates networking activities and offers practical information and assistance on all aspects of participation in Horizon Europe (Pillar 1, Pillar 2, Africa Initiative, etc.).
Dr. Maalel plays a crucial role in promoting EU research and has undertaken missions to several African countries, including Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, among others.
Ahmed Maalel
Regional Representative for EURAXESS Africa
Vanessa Miani
Policy Analyst Asia, Africa, MENA and External Relations, DG RTD, European Commission
Vanessa Miani is policy officer at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, focusing on cooperation with Africa on science, technology and innovation. With a background in research and analysis, she holds two Master's degrees in international cooperation, with a focus on MENA and Africa studies.
Vanessa Miani
Policy Analyst Asia, Africa, MENA and External Relations, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission
Claire Morel
Head of Unit - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, European Commission
Claire Morel is, at the European Commission, the Head of unit in charge of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for the mobility and training of researchers and the development of excellent doctoral programmes. Before that she was the Head of the Unit for international cooperation at DG Education, Culture, Youth and Sport of the European Commission, with particular focus on the international dimension of the Erasmus+ programme and international policy dialogues in higher education and youth with various partners of the EU in the world. She has worked several years with the countries neighbouring the EU. Before, she worked for the Tempus programme (for higher education modernisation), cooperating with Central Asian countries, and for the European Training Foundation, an agency of the EU based in Turin, on the reform of vocational education and training systems in the Eastern neighbouring countries and Central Asia.
Claire Morel
Head of Unit – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, European Commission
Andreas Mortensen
Associate Vice President for Research, EPFL
Andreas Mortensen is currently a Professor and director of the Laboratory for Mechanical Metallurgy at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, while also serving as EPFL’s associate vice-president for research. Prior to joining EPFL in 1997 he was, from 1986 to 1996, a member of the faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, holding the successive titles of ALCOA Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor. Prior to that he was a postdoctoral researcher at Nippon Steel in 1986, after earning an engineering diploma in 1980 from the Ecole des Mines de Paris and a Ph.D. in materials engineering from MIT in 1986. At EPFL he has served successively as Dean of Doctoral Studies, Director of the Institute of Materials, Dean for Research, Vice-Provost and then Vice-President for Research. He has also served industry, the academic enterprise and government, on committees or as a consultant, and has edited journals and books. His research focuses on the processing, microstructural development and mechanical behavior of metal alloys and advanced metallic materials, blending process and physical metallurgy with the study of the mechanical behavior of materials, and has addressed over the years a relatively broad range of topics in the general field of metallurgy. He additionally serves as a member of the board of Aalto university and as president of the scientific committee of the Ecole des Mines de Paris.
Andreas Mortensen
Associate Vice President for Research, EPFL
Emmanuel Nakouné
Scientific Director, Institut Pasteur de Bangui
Mr. Emmanuel Nakoune-Yandoko is Director of Research, Scientific Director of the Pasteur Institute of Bangui and Research Professor at the University of Bangui in Central African Republic.
He has worked extensively on the reservoir of the Ebola virus and has demonstrated for the first time in 1998 the genome of the Ebola virus in small mammals captured in the primary forest of Central Africa. Emmanuel Nakoune-Yandoko is Head of the Arboviruses, hemorrhagic fever viruses, emerging viruses and zoonoses laboratory at the Pasteur Institute of Bangui, which he has been managing for 35 years. Emmanuel Nakoune-Yandoko set up the surveillance and diagnosis of monkeypox since 2001 at the Pasteur Institute of Bangui in collaboration with the Ministry of Health.
Specialist in emerging and/or re-emerging viruses. Emmanuel Nakoune-Yandoko has a total of 123 publications in leading journals. Expert member of the African Rabies Network. Since 2018 he has been an expert at WHO for monkeypox Clinical Management Team Member; BSMA Africa Combatting Infectious Diseases Team Member. His various research works have earned him the following honors:
- Officer in the Order of Academic Palms (France);
- Knight in the National Order of Merit (France);
- Commander in the Central African Order of Merit (CAR);
- Winner of the Mérieux 2024 Prize (France).
Emmanuel Nakouné
Scientific Director, Institut Pasteur de Bangui
Tatiana Panteli
Head of EuroTech Brussels Office
Tatiana is passionate about knowledge and people. That is why most of her career has been devoted to academia and working with great minds. Her studies include Philology (South Federal University), MBA (Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK), MS in European Studies (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), PRINCE2 and Innovation Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam). Being open-minded and curious, Tatiana travelled the world studying and working in such countries as Russia, the UK, Cyprus and Belgium. Tatiana also believes in the importance of living sustainably supporting this professionally through involvement in Climate Change Solutions Ltd, UK and promoting sustainability as a guiding principle within EuroTech.
Tatiana Panteli
Head of EuroTech Brussels Office
Mariana Rufino
Chair of Livestock Systems, Technical University of Munich
Mariana Rufino is an experienced scientist who conducts studies across scales, from agricultural fields to whole landscapes. Her research aims to understand the constraints to primary productivity and to test hypotheses of ecosystem functioning under climate change. She collaborates with several research institutions, with a strong focus on Africa. In the last 15 years, she has been developing scientific evidence to reduce GHG emissions from the livestock sector, increasing resilience by managing grazing, choosing alternative feeds and protecting biodiversity.
Mariana Rufino
Chair of Livestock Systems, Technical University of Munich
Kirsten Thomsen
Head of Research Secretariat, DTU Aqua, Technical University of Denmark
Dr. Kirsten Arnfred Thomsen. Head of Research Secretariat at DTU Aqua. Working (pre-grant) with all types of research funding. Has been involved in collaboration with universities in Ghana and Tanzania over the past 10 years and worked for Danida Forest Seed Centre in the 90’s with collaborative tree seed projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Kirsten Thomsen
Head of Research Secretariat, DTU Aqua, Technical University of Denmark
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