Jean-Philippe STEYER

Jean-Philippe Steyer is Director of Research at INRAE-LBE in Narbonne. His areas of research include modeling and optimizing biological processes for waste and wastewater treatment and recovery. Over the past ten years, the doctoral students he has supervised have worked on modeling microbial diversity, integrating thermodynamics into mass balance models, developing metabolic models in conjunction with innovative real-time instrumentation systems to obtain more accurate information on the dynamics of ecosystems in bioprocesses, as well as life cycle analysis to take environmental impacts into account. He has also broadened his areas of application, focusing on anaerobic digestion as a core bioprocess, but integrating it with innovative processes such as microalgae cultivation for sustainable bioenergy and bioproduct production. Jean-Philippe Steyer is currently co-director of the INRAE metaprogram on “The bioeconomy for urban areas”, scientific director of the Explor’AE program on “accelerating high-risk research in agriculture, food, and the environment,” and an elected member of Section 5 “Interactions between environments and living beings” of the French Academy of Agriculture. On the scientific aspects, he has published 322 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, contributed to 22 book chapters and 453 papers at international conferences.