Patrick Navard

**ADDRESS** **CEMEF** : Centre de Mise en Forme des Matériaux / Center for Materials Forming MINES ParisTech - CNRS UMR 7635 Rue Claude Daunesse – CS 10207 06904 Sophia Antipolis cedex - France tel: 33-(0)4 93 95 74 66 (direct) fax: 33-(0)4 92 38 97 52 e-mail: patrick.navard@mines-paristech.fr www.cemef.mines-paristech.fr **PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE** · **Coordinator** of the European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence since 2004 EPNOE www.epnoe.eu · **Series Editor**. Springer “Biobased Polymers”. Collection started beg 2016, 22 books signed · **Deputy-director** of the CNRS / Ecole des Mines CEMEF joint research center 2004-2011 · **Director** of the CNRS / Ecole des Mines CEMEF joint research center 2001-2004 1989 to present : **Directeur de Recherche au CNRS** Research areas: polysaccharides, biobased composites (polymers and concrete), polymer rheology, polymer processing, rheo-physics, polymer physics (blends, liquid crystals, solutions, suspensions, gels, light scattering). 1983-1984 **Post-doctoral Research Fellow.** IBM Research Center, San Jose, California Research Supervisoror : Prof. P.J. FLORY. 1980-1981 **Research Fellow.** Dept. of Physics. City of London Polytechnic. London Research Supervisoror : Dr. G.H. MEETEN 1981-1983 **Post-graduate Student.** Ecole des Mines de Paris, Sophia Antipolis 1978-1980 PhD Supervisor : Prof. J.M. HAUDIN ACADEMIC BACKGROUND =================== 1983 **Thèse** de Doctorat-ès-Sciences. (INSA) de Lyon et Université de Lyon I. "Physical properties of cellulose and cellulose derivative mesophases" 1982 **Thèse** de Docteur-Ingénieur (equivalent to a PhD). "Study of cellulose / *N*-methyl morpholine *N*-oxide solutions". 1979 **DEA** (postgraduate degree) with a specialization in Mechanical Properties of Materials. Ecole des Mines de Paris. 1978 **DEA** with a specialization in Biology. Université de Lyon 1978 **Diplôme d'Ingénieur** in Physics and Materials Science. INSA de Lyon. Département de Génie Physique et Matériaux. **AWARDS** 1995 Groupe Français de Rhéologie National Award 1989 Groupe Français des Polymères (GFP) National Award **PROFESSIONAL SERVICES** **Professional Journal Activities**: • Reviewer : Journal of Polymer Science, Macromolecules, Liquid Crystals, Journal of Rheology, Rheologica Acta, Molecular Crystal Liquid Crystals, Journal de Physique, Langmuir, Biomacromolecules, Cellulose, Carbohydrate Polymers, … **Organization of Conferences:** 2017 ACS national meeting, San-Francisco. Co-organiser of an EPNOE-ACS session “Processing and properties of biobased composites and blends". 2017 EPNOE-ACS 2015 conference, Erfurt, Germany. President of the International Advisory Board. 2016 7th Workshop on Cellulose, Regenerated Cellulose and Cellulose Derivatives, Örnsköldsvik, Suède. Member of scientific committee. 2016 ACS national meeting, San Diego. Co-organiser of the EPNOE-ACS session “New Horizons in Sustainable Materials”. 2016 XII French-Romanian polymer meeting, Nice. Co-organizer. Plus 40 other ones before 2016 **ACADEMIC SUPERVISING** **30 PhD Dissertations** **Supervising of more than 26 post-doctoral scientists and 78 undergraduates.** **SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT** **Scientific management of research contracts** **•** Direct scientific responsibility of more than 45 research contracts with industry and EC or governmental agencies since 1984. **Co-ordination of collaborative research contracts** Academic research programmes ---------------------------- *French-UK* (1987-1988) with City of London Polytechnic*, French-UK Alliance programme* (1992-1994) with University of Reading, CNRS-NSF (1993-1995) with Stanford University, *CNRS-Romanian Academy of Sciences* (1993-1996) with University of Iasi, *CNRS-Russian Academy of Sciences* (1998-2003; 2008-2012) with Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, St Petersburg. European research programmes ---------------------------- Co-ordinator of the *BRITE-EURAM Project* (1993-1996) on polymer blends, three partners and ten industrial sponsors. Co-ordinator of the *Human Capital and Mobility and PECO networks* (1995-1997) on polymer solution rheology, seven partners. Co-ordinator of Polysaccharides (*Network of Excellence*) 2005-2009 (16 partners). Co-ordinator of EPNOE CSA, 2012-1015 (16 partners). Large research programmes ------------------------- Co-coordinator of the large (30M€) French project “Biomass for the Future”. Responsible for the application program (2013-2020). **PUBLICATIONS** Article in International Refereed Journals : 159 Books : 3 Patent : 1 Conferences Invited Conferences : 80 Communications in Conferences : 273