Innovation and Industry
Events
30 September - 01 October 2026
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Innovation and Industry
News
17 February 2026
Offshore wind farms and their impact on the environment: launch of the OWWAAW project
The OWWAAW (Offshore wind farms: effects on weather, acoustics and aerial wildlife) project was launched on January 26, 2026. The project will study the interactions between offshore wind farms and weather, as well as their effects on output, acoustics, and aerial biodiversity (birds and bats).
Innovation and Industry
Events
24 - 27 June 2025
WESC 2025: a showcase for advances in IFPEN research on wind power
From June 24th to 27th, Nantes will host the Wind Energy Science Conference 2025.
Fundamental Research
News
23 October 2024
From the control of a pollution remediation system to that of a wind turbine via random set learning
Fundamental Research
News
11 September 2024
Paris hosts EUROCORR 2024: a step forward in research and awareness on corrosion issues
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Ouafaé EL GANAOUI-MOURLAN, HDR
Professor of Sustainable Mobility
HDR and Co-Holder of the ECAV Chair
HDR and Co-Holder of the ECAV Chair
Ouafae El Ganaoui Mourlan is an engineer graduated from École Centrale Méditerranée and holds a PhD in Fluid Mechanics from Aix-Marseille University II. She is currently a Professor at IFP School
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Carlos Eduardo ANDRADE
Economist-Engineer, Energy Systems Modeler, Foresight Analyst
Carlos Andrade obtained his PhD from Mines Paris in 2021, with a thesis on modeling the energy transition and the circular economy of territories. He then carried out a postdoctoral research at IFPEN
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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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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
News in brief
Feedback from the European HIPERWIND project dedicated to the incorporation of uncertainties in offshore wind power
The European HIPERWIND project has ollowed to gain a better understanding of the complex physics influencing the design and operation of large offshore wind farms with a view to enabling substantial cost savings for their owners and, ultimately, for electricity consumers.
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Jean-Marc GRATIEN
Research engineer in High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Engineer of Ecole Centrale Paris, Ocean engineering, promotion 1994 PhD in Computer Sciences, Université de Grenoble 2012 Expert in HPC, IA and Scientific software design Main contributor of the
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Philippe BÉARD
Research engineer
Dr, PhD in Fluid Mechanics
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
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Guillaume VINAY
Research Project Manager "Multiphysics Modeling of Coupling Phenomenon", PhD research engineer in numerical fluid mechanics
Guillaume Vinay studied at ENSEIRB-MATMECA in Bordeaux before completing a PhD in Numerical Mechanics at Mines ParisTech. Graduating in 2005, he was awarded the thesis prize of the Groupe Français de
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Francesco PATACCHINI
Research engineer in scientific computing
Francesco Patacchini is a research engineer in scientific computing and, more generally, in applied mathematics. He obtained his PhD at Imperial College London in 2017 under the supervision of Prof
News in brief
waLBerla-wind : fast high-fidelity wind farm flow simulations
IFPEN, together with Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, has extended the widely applicable Lattice-Boltzmann (LBM) framework waLBerla to the simulation of entire wind farms using a Large-Eddy Simulation framework