Annual Seminars

Pierre Guisset

Title of the presentation: Chair of the 1st ABCDE Seminar

Short Bio: Pierre Guisset was graduated in Civil Engineering in 1980 and in Business Administration in 1983 from the University of Louvain, Belgium. After being researcher during 5 years focusing on applying Operations Research in Engineering modelling technologies, he joined Dynamic Engineering NV, a start-up company. In 1990, he founded Numerical Integration Technologies NV which rapidly became the world leader software provider in numerical acoustics. The company merged with LMS International where Pierre became leader of the Virtual Prototyping business unit, and has been managing or involved in several EC-funded projects. In 2002, Pierre took over the general management of CETIC, the Belgian ICT research centre, and took a key position in large FP6/FP7 projects such as CoreGRID and BEinGRID. Since 2008, Pierre manages the ERCIM office in Brussels.

Jérôme Chailloux

Title of the presentation: Welcome speech

Short Bio: Jérôme Chailloux worked at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), from 1980 to 1987, as a researcher and became research director, whilst occupying several teaching positions (École Polytechnique, CERICS). He worked in the areas of automatic VLSI circuit design, software engineering and knowledge-based systems, and is the main inventor and developer of the programming language Le-Lisp, specialising in artificial intelligence. From 1987 to 1995, Jérôme Chailloux co-founded the software company ILOG, taking on the roles of Chief Scientific Officer and Director. From 1995 to 2001, he was Chief Information Officer of the genomics company GENSET and led one of the largest European team of bioinformaticians. Since May 2005, he is Manager of the European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics and Site Manager of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Europe.

Claude Kirchner

Title of the presentation: Welcome speech

Short Bio: Claude Kirchner has worked as a high school mathematics teacher, associate professor in computer science, research scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and, since 1988, has been a research director at Inria. His scientific interests and contributions focus on logical and semantic foundations, particularly based on rewriting, for the design and implementation of robust and secure systems. He contributed to the emergence of deduction modulo concepts and of the rewriting calculus. Starting in 1992, he created and directed the Protheo project-team in Nancy. He was a joint winner of the 2002 Academy of Sciences grand prize for the Franco-Chinese cultural foundation. He has chaired the scientific and evaluation councils of the programs of the ministry then of ANR (the French National Research Agency) in security and informatics. He has been director of the Inria Bordeaux – Sud- Ouest research center from 2008 to 2010 and is Inria’s CEO for science and technology since September 2010.

Tore R. Jørgensen

Title of the presentation: Chair of the Fellows’ presentations session

Short Bio: Since 2002, Tore R. Jørgensen is a Senior Advisor at of Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering and also coordinator for ICT-research at NTNU. He was involved in several international conferences linked to “Education and training”. He also published some articles concerning “Continuing Education” and “Distance Education”.

Eric Chareyre

Title of the presentation: Employment Testing

Short Bio: Education: Clermont-Ferrand graduate school of management, MBA (1994)
Occupation: Talent detection project manager & Career executives’ advisor at Inria Occasional teacher in Clermont-Ferrand graduate school of management Member of the Global Talent Club.

Short description of the presentation: There are many different types of personality tests used by employers to select employees based on scores from these tests. T. Hendrickson developed the “Personal Profile Analysis (PPA)” based on Marston’s theory. W. Marston contributed to the DISC assessment (characteristics of behavior can be grouped into four major behavior styles).

Barthélémy Durette

Title of the presentation: Career Management

Short Bio: Barthélémy Durette has a PhD in Cognitive Sciences from the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. Since 2011, he has been working as a R&D project manager for Adoc Talent Management, the first recruitment consultancy specializing in PhDs.

Short description of the presentation: This session will address the questions of PhD skills, job opportunities and career and deal with the means for PhDs to build their careers, to find information about job opportunities in Europe and to present their professional added-value during a recruitment process.

Carlos Martín-Vide

Title of the presentation: ERC Starting Grants

Short Bio: PhD in linguistics, PhD in mathematics, Full professor in the University of Tarragona (Spain) until 2007, with research activity in language and automata theory, molecular computing and mathematical linguistics. In the ERC since 2007 in charge of the evaluation panels in mathematics and computer science.

Short description of the presentation: The main elements of the programme to fund 5-year projects by young researchers (up to 6 years after PhD) in any discipline will be presented.

Paola Goatin

Title of the presentation: ERC Starting Grant experience: “Traffic Management by Macroscopic Models”

Short Bio: Paola Goatin held a PhD in Functional Analysis from the International School for Advances Studies in Trieste (Italy), and a Habilitation (HDR) in Mathematics from Toulon University (France). She has been assistant professor at Toulon University during 7 years, before joining INRIA as research scientist two years ago.

Short description of the presentation: Paola Goatin will briefly retrace her personal experience as a scientist and ERC Starting Grant Fellow. Then she will illustrate the main lines of the project and some of the results obtained so far.

Alan Craig

Title of the presentation: The People programme, from the end of FP7 to the beginning of H2020

Short Bio: Alan Craig, for much of his professional career, was a mathematics professor in the UK. He is a former (1993-95) ABCDE fellow. Five years ago he joined the European Commission as a detached national expert to the Marie Curie programme. Since 2010 he has been working in the commission's Research Executive Agency where he has particular responsibility for the COFUND programme.

Short description of the presentation: Alan Craig will describe the remaining calls for funding that will be available in the last year (2013) of the PEOPLE programme and describe the transition to Horizon 2020.

Sebastian Surma

Title of the presentation: How to successfully start your own high-tech company

Short Bio: Sebastian Surma works as an Investment Manager at Fraunhofer Venture, which is the venture capital arm of the Fraunhofer Society. In his position he is responsible for founding new IT-related start-up companies and for managing a portfolio of currently 15 high-tech firms that have been spun out of scientific research. In his earlier engagements he worked for the Financial Services Division of the BMW Group in Munich and in the Sales Management Division of IBM. Additionally, he has acquired hands-on experience in Internet-related businesses, where he was involved as a systems developer and company founder. Prior to his professional career, Sebastian studied Business Administration and Information Systems at the University of Cologne.

Short description of the presentation: Scientific research is interesting, challenging and very useful. Many scientists and researchers perceive their work as a vocation rather than an ordinary job and pursue it with all their passion. Their eventual goal in many cases is the widespread adoption of their scientific results. As there are many different ways to achieve this goal, there is one way that, no doubt, stands out: commercializing your results by building your own high- tech company. In this lecture you will learn about some valuable concepts and methods, which could prove helpful to your ambition to successfully market your individual ideas and research results. It is a glimpse into the experiences that we at Fraunhofer Venture have collected in 12 years of operation with more than 120 start-up's that we have been involved in.

Siri Granum Carson

Title of the presentation: Ethical and Intellectual property issues

Short Bio: Since 2009 an Associate Professor at the Programme for Applied Ethics, NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Trondheim. Before this I was a PhD student and research fellow at the Department of Philosophy, NTNU. PhD in Philosophy from 2008, NTNU. PhD thesis on the topic of freedom of agency. Since then I have worked primarily on CSR/business ethics, and have published articles and a Norwegian introductory book on this topic. I also teach and work on research ethics through my position at the Programme for Applied ethics, and through my post in the Regional ethics committee for health research in Mid-Norway.

Short description of the presentation: Her presentation on research ethics will focus on the intersection between regulations and personal judgment. Central topics will be IPR, conflicts of interest, loyalty and openness. She will make a short introduction on these topics before presenting some specific cases for discussion. The point of departure for the discussions will be challenges brought about by collaboration over national, cultural, and disciplinary borders.

Pierre Guisset

Title of the presentation: Chair of the 1st ABCDE Seminar

Short Bio: Pierre Guisset was graduated in Civil Engineering in 1980 and in Business Administration in 1983 from the University of Louvain, Belgium. After being researcher during 5 years focusing on applying Operations Research in Engineering modelling technologies, he joined Dynamic Engineering NV, a start-up company. In 1990, he founded Numerical Integration Technologies NV which rapidly became the world leader software provider in numerical acoustics. The company merged with LMS International where Pierre became leader of the Virtual Prototyping business unit, and has been managing or involved in several EC-funded projects. In 2002, Pierre took over the general management of CETIC, the Belgian ICT research centre, and took a key position in large FP6/FP7 projects such as CoreGRID and BEinGRID. Since 2008, Pierre manages the ERCIM office in Brussels.

Jérôme Chailloux

Title of the presentation: Welcome speech

Short Bio: Jérôme Chailloux worked at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), from 1980 to 1987, as a researcher and became research director, whilst occupying several teaching positions (École Polytechnique, CERICS). He worked in the areas of automatic VLSI circuit design, software engineering and knowledge-based systems, and is the main inventor and developer of the programming language Le-Lisp, specialising in artificial intelligence. From 1987 to 1995, Jérôme Chailloux co-founded the software company ILOG, taking on the roles of Chief Scientific Officer and Director. From 1995 to 2001, he was Chief Information Officer of the genomics company GENSET and led one of the largest European team of bioinformaticians. Since May 2005, he is Manager of the European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics and Site Manager of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Europe.

Claude Kirchner

Title of the presentation: Welcome speech

Short Bio: Claude Kirchner has worked as a high school mathematics teacher, associate professor in computer science, research scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and, since 1988, has been a research director at Inria. His scientific interests and contributions focus on logical and semantic foundations, particularly based on rewriting, for the design and implementation of robust and secure systems. He contributed to the emergence of deduction modulo concepts and of the rewriting calculus. Starting in 1992, he created and directed the Protheo project-team in Nancy. He was a joint winner of the 2002 Academy of Sciences grand prize for the Franco-Chinese cultural foundation. He has chaired the scientific and evaluation councils of the programs of the ministry then of ANR (the French National Research Agency) in security and informatics. He has been director of the Inria Bordeaux – Sud- Ouest research center from 2008 to 2010 and is Inria’s CEO for science and technology since September 2010.

Tore R. Jørgensen

Title of the presentation: Chair of the Fellows’ presentations session

Short Bio: Since 2002, Tore R. Jørgensen is a Senior Advisor at of Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering and also coordinator for ICT-research at NTNU. He was involved in several international conferences linked to “Education and training”. He also published some articles concerning “Continuing Education” and “Distance Education”.

Hanna Pletziger

Title of the presentation: The EURAXESS Network: Enhancing Research Careers Across Europe

Short Bio: Since February 2010, Hanna Pletziger works for the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation in Bonn, Germany. From February 2010 until June 2011, she worked for the "National Contact Point Mobility", which was the German National Contact Point in charge of the "Marie Curie Actions" (Specific Programme People of the 7th Framework programme of the EU). Since July 2011 she is, in addition, in charge of EURAXESS Germany.

Karin Blankers

Title of the presentation: Media Training

Short Bio: Karin Blankers works at the Communication Department of CWI as senior communication consultant and press officer. She has a wide range of experience in managing media relations. At CWI she developed a media training program targeted at researchers.

Matthieu Lafon

Title of the presentation: Career Management

Short Bio: Matthieu obtained a PhD in cognitive neurosciences from University Pierre et Marie Curie. He worked 3 years in the R&D division of EDF before co-founding Adoc Talent Management, the first European executive recruitment consultancy firm specialized in PhDs. He is now managing director at Adoc Talent Management and its Irish subsidiary Adoc Staffing Solutions. Matthieu is also an AERES expert (the French Evaluation Agency for Research and Higher Education).

Alan Craig

Title of the presentation: European Commission Marie Curie Actions

Short Bio: For most of his career he has been a research mathematician at the University of Durham in the UK, most recently working on Domain Decomposition Methods. He was one of the first ERCIM fellows in the early 1990s. Four years ago he came to Brussels as a Seconded National Expert to work on research funding policy and recently he has moved to the executive agency to manage the Marie Curie COFUND programme.

Luc Grateau

Title of the presentation: From research to an innovative company: People, tools and processes at INRIA

Short Bio: Luc Grateau is currently in charge of Technology Transfer Strategies at INRIA. He holds a PhD form Paris 11 University (87), a MBA from Theseus Institute Sophia in 92, a degree in Industrial Property in 97 from the International Centre for Industrial Property – Strasbourg University. From 1988 to 1991 he has been with CORNING Europe were he managed an industrial research projects portfolio. He joined the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 1993 were he has worked for 8 years as a regional technology transfer officer, negotiator and administrative manager of joint R&D projects with industrial partners or EC funded projects (Eureka, ESPRIT, 4th / 5th PCRDT, IST). He worked for three years as Invention Disclosures Analyst and IP strategist at the CNRS headquarters. He joined INRIA in 2004 as Head of the Intellectual Assets Management and transfer Office. He has participated to set-up several joint research laboratories with industrial companies (GEMPLUS, AVENTIS and MICROSOFT) and has facilitated several start-up creation.

Sebastian Surma

Title of the presentation: From research to business

Short Bio: Sebastian Surma joined Fraunhofer Venture as an Investment Manager in April 2010. In his previous positions, he was Business Analyst in the Financial Services Division of the BMW Group and worked in the sales control and organizational design teams of IBM and Cologne-based WDR (German TV channel). Additionally, he has acquired hands-on experience in Internet-related businesses, where he was involved as a systems developer and company founder. Prior to his professional career, Sebastian studied Business Administration and Information Systems at the University of Cologne.

Morten Øien

Title of the presentation: IPR in FP7 collaborative projects – The main principles

Short Bio: Before joining NTNU in 1997, he had worked for many years as a private practicing lawyer in a medium-sized Norwegian law firm. He has more than 25 years of experience in negotiating international contracts. In 2007 he was appointed member of a national working group that proposed common principles for institutional IPR policies. In 2009 he worked part-time as part of the legal team behind the IPR helpdesk project (University of Alicante). Morten is NTNU permanent representative in the Norwegian ERA Committee, the knowledge transfer group and is also leader of NTNU Internal IPR Committee. He is a permanent representative in the Norwegian ERA Committee, the knowledge transfer group and is also leader of NTNU Internal IPR Committee.

Siri Granum Carson

Title of the presentation: Ethics in Research

Short Bio: Since 2009, Carson Siri Granum is an Associate Professor at the Programme for Applied Ethics, NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Trondheim. Before this she was a PhD student and research fellow at the Department of Philosophy, NTNU. PhD in Philosophy from 2008, NTNU. PhD thesis on the topic of freedom of agency. Since then she has worked primarily on CSR/business ethics, and have published articles and a Norwegian introductory book on this topic. She also teaches and works on research ethics through her position at the Programme for Applied ethics, and through her post in the Regional ethics committee for health research in Mid-Norway.