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Nicolas Fintzi
Fundamental Research
News 28 November 2025

2025 Yves Chauvin Prize: interview with the winner, Nicolas Fintzi

Nicolas Fintzi, winner of the 2025 Yves Chauvin prize, received his award at a ceremony held at IFPEN’s Rueil-Malmaison site on 27 November. The award was in recognition of Nicolas’ research focusing on gaining a better understanding of the buoyancy-driven droplet flows found in many chemical engineering processes, such as gravity separators and liquid-liquid extractors. Interview with the winner.

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Nicolas ROGY

Research Engineer in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Main application areas of LCA: biofuels; wind turbines; hydrogen; water treatment; territorial LCA. Main research themes on the LCA method: territorial LCA; multi-criteria decision support
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Innovation and Industry

Sustainable water management
Pour répondre aux défis de la transition hydrique, IFPEN co-développe ces technologies avec des PME, start up et industriels, de la recherche amont au déploiement opérationnel, pour répondre aux problématiques concrètes rencontrées par les acteurs de l’eau.
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Paula COUSSY

Research Engineer in Environmental Economics
Project Manager – CO₂ Externalities
Paula Coussy, an environmental economist, is Project Manager for ‘CO₂ Externalities’ at IFP Energies nouvelles. Her work focuses on the economic assessment of decarbonisation technologies and policies
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Daphné LORNE

Economic Engineer, Head of Projects
A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie de Nancy, Daphné Lorne joined IFPEN in 2006 as a research engineer working on the roll-out of biofuel supply chains within the Economic Studies
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Maxime LUCAS

Life Cycle Assessment research engineer
Research engineer specialized in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) applied to energy systems. Teaching contributions at IFP School and other universities. Designated French expert advising the Directorate
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Philippe BÉARD

Research engineer
Dr, PhD in Fluid Mechanics
PhD in Fluid Mechanics at ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France in 1994. Research engineer in the Systems Simulation and Modelling Department from 1996 to 2008. Since 2008, research engineer in the Chemical
Water cycle management and climate change
Issues and Foresight

Water cycle management and climate change
Water resources are becoming scarcer as they come under increased human and climate pressure. Over-use, drought, pollution and eutrophication* are complicating management of the domestic water cycle, including in Europe, where one third of the territory is exposed to high water stress.