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Guillaume Boissonnet hails from Grenoble, France. He studied science in Grenoble, Pau, Aix-en-Provence and Montpellier. He is a graduate engineer in chemical and process engineering. He holds a PhD from the Scientific University of Montpellier, in physical chemistry and process engineering applied to nuclear decontamination, carried out at CEA Cadarache. He holds a habilitation from the University and Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, applied to biomass conversion.

After his PhD, he first worked as an engineer in a company specialised in dynamic simulation of petrochemical processes. He then joined the CEA Grenoble in 2000, as a process and modelling engineer, applied to biomass gasification and biofuel production. After having been project leader for CEA, until 2015, in the BioTfuel project, on the industrial feasibility of a BtL chain @15 MW, he was involved in H2020 projects as a partner. In 2016, he chose to focus his expertise on multi-criteria analysis of complex energy systems related to renewable (biomass) and recycled (CO2) carbon uses. This field include simulation, multi-objective process optimisation and economic and environmental assessments.

In France, he is the CEA representative in the biomass group of ANCRE (National Research Alliance on Energy), where he has led several projects contributing to national roadmaps on energy defossilisation (the use of biofuels for aviation and carbon sinks contributing to the French Low Carbon Strategy).

Since 2021, he has joined I’Tésé, the CEA’s energy economics laboratory, where he is the referent for circular carbon economy (biofuels, efuels) and multicriteria analysis applied to energy. He particularly studies the demand and supply of alternative fuels for industry and transport systems (road, aviation, maritime), as well as national and European regulations systems, aimed at achieving carbon neutrality.

David has been a member of the Sustainable Transport Unit in the Institute for Energy & Transport of the Joint Research Centre (Petten, The Netherlands) until retirement from the European Commission in August 2016.
He was part of a team providing scientific and technical support to the development and maintenance of sustainability schemes for biomass and bioenergy, including biofuels.

In addition, he was a member of the European Bioenergy Industrial Initiative (EIBI) team which is operates within the frame of the Strategic Energy Technologies (SET) Plan. He is also a former leader of the International Energy Agency Bioenergy Biogas Task 37, promoting economically and environmentally sustainable management of biogas production and utilisation from agricultural residues, energy crops and municipal wastes.

David Baxter is a materials engineer who joined the European Commission Joint Research Centre in 1991 after working in an industrial company supplying components for power generation and transport. He also spent 5 years at Argonne National Laboratory in the USA in the 1980s carrying out research into materials for fossil energy technologies.

Angela Grassi is ETA-Florence Managing Director. Project management based on Economics and Political Science background and experience. Over 20 years organisation and management of high level international Conferences and Exhibitions in the field of Renewable Energies. Executive Committee Member of international conferences. Since 2000 organisation and management of the annual European Biomass Conference and Exhibition. Coordinator of international projects on renewable energies. Responsibilities include project definition, setting up of international teams, guidance and follow-up of project work, reporting, budgeting, project results assessment and dissemination of results. Author and co-author of papers published in proceedings of national and international conferences; contributions to specialised books. Preparation of final project reports for the European Commission. Managing editor of brochures, publications, scientific proceedings.