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Sophie Jullian, new Scientific Director of IFP

05 April 2010

Sophie Jullian has been appointed Scientific Director. She is taking over from Philippe Ungerer, who has moved to a different role within IFP.

Sophie Jullian, 50, graduated as an engineer from the École Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon (CPE) and as a doctor of chemistry from the Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris, France. She has also been an auditor at the Institut des Hautes Etudes pour la Science et la Technology (IHEST, the class of Hubert Curien 2009). She joined IFP in 1983, working in the field of separation by adsorption processes within the applied Physical Chemistry and Analysis Division and became project manager for gas treatment processes. In 1998, she was appointed head of the Thermodynamics and Transfers Department, before becoming Director of the Development Division at IFP-Lyon in 2001, then Director of the Process Research Division in 2005. She had been Director for Development at IFP-Lyon and Vice-chairman for the Axelera competitiveness cluster since 2008.