Speakers for Mobilis 2010

Bruno Marzloff is a sociologist, director of research firm Media Mundi. Since ten years, he manages the Chronos Group, Laboratory of innovative urban mobility, which includes fifteen major accounts around the issues of urban mobility and organization of time in the city. He is a member of the Scientific Committee OTEN (Observatory of Digital Territories) and co-runs the project Villes 2.0 (Town2.0) with the FING (Foundation Internet New Generation). Recent publications:  Pour une mobilité plus libre et plus durable ("For a freer and more sustainable mobility"), with Daniel Kaplan, FYP editions, 2009 and Le 5e écran ("the 5th screen"), FYP Editions, 2009.

Research Adviser – R&D Center Toyota Chuo Kenkyujo S.A.
Professor- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM), - Tohoku University
 
Professor Taga joined Toyota Central R & D Labs after graduated from Nagoya Institute of Technology and obtained Ph.D. degree from Osaka University in 1970 and in 1977, respectively. Prof. Taga was a Director and a Fellow of Toyota from 1996 to 2006. In 2006, Prof. Taga moved to Chubu University as a Director of Thin Film Research Center. He has been working in research and development of thin films and surface and interface with a special emphasis on the applications in automobile industry, where he published more than 320 original papers and 150 patents. He also received many international awards such as R & D 100 Awards in 1998 and Global 100 Eco-Tec Awards in 2005. Professor Taga is now engaged in the fundamental research of adhesion at low temperature and in the development of thin film solar system.

Professor Taga was in charge of global research at Toyota (R & D / Research Center Chuo Toyota), with a focus on research on engines. His lectures are followed assiduously by engineers from Toyota, not to mention Mr. Shoichiro Toyota.

Awards:
1998 R & D Award for Thin Film Tester
2001 Best Paper Award, MRS Spring Meeting
2001 Science Photography Award, Japan Institute of Metals
2002 Jack Lucas Award, Japan American Society of Metallugy
2003 New Technology Development Award, Japan Ceramics Society
2005 Special PacRim 5 Award, Japan Ceramics Society
2005 Gobal 100 Eco-Tec Award, Japan Expo Prom. Society
 
Member of : The Electrochemical Sensor Society - Japan Academic Science Promotion Organization - European Materials Society - Japan Applied Physics Society - Japan Institute of Metals (JIM)
 
Editorial Activities: Review manuscripts for : Applied Physics Letters - Journal of Applied Physics - Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology - Thin Solid Films - Japanese Journal Applied Physics
 
Membership of Government Committees: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - Japan Science and Technology Corporation
 
Publications: Scientific papers (322) - Technical Papers and Institute’s Report (52) - Review Papers (73) - Patents (155)

Harm Weken is Managing Director of FIER Automotive, which is located in the Netherlands (www.fier.net). He works since 1990 in the automotive industry. Harm has become expert in industry policy development and business planning as well as in the realisation of national and international automotive clusters and networks. He has been responsible for many projects with automotive companies and public authorities in various European countries in the automotive industry, the supply chain and in the auto retail sector.
Harm was from 1995 till 2003 responsible as director of an Automotive Research Institute at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
 
Harm is since 2008 member of the board of directors of EASN: European Automotive Strategy Network, which is a platform for automotive regions and clusters in the EU. Within the board Harm Weken is responsible for overlooking the subject "automotive innovation".

Born on October 30, 1955 in Lons le Saunier, France. Graduated from ESSEC (1977) and ENSPTT (1982).
Spent his entire career at La Poste, starting at the PTT French Postal and Telecommunications Service, which today belongs to the European La Poste group.
Operational positions: Director of Marne Département, Director of Bas-Rhin Département, Director of Paris Nord.
Functional positions: 6 years commercial director of La Poste of the Eastern France regions (including Franche Comté)
At present Regional Delegate of the La Poste group in Alsace.

Director of ALPHEA Hydrogène

After studying chemical engineering at Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle in Lyon, France and obtaining a thesis in Process Engineering at Ecole des Mines in Saint-Etienne, M. Junker started his professional career in 1996 at ALPHEA as an engineer for market watch / study / projects.

He was in charge of setting up watch documents for the members of ALPHEA, produced by the Competitiveness Pole on hydrogen. His activities progressively lead him to carrying out many technical, economical and regulatory studies on hydrogen energetic applications and associated technologies.

Director of ALPHEA HYDROGENE since July 2003, he has contributed to professionalizing ALPHEA's watch and study activities, creating a reference watch and study centre recognized by the professionals of this sector in France.

At present he more specifically contributes in setting up ALPHEA demonstration projects and the establishment of the consistency of French actions in this field.

Samuel Hibon is an engineer who graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure Engineering School at Le Mans, specialized in measuring systems and command control, and he holds a secondary school teaching qualification (CAPES) in Physical Sciences.

Between 1997 and 2005, he was a professor in Physical Sciences in high school and university. At the same time, he was an instructor for adults and for apprentice teachers at IUFM.
He took care of the experimentation of new tools in the framework of his instructional functions and set up the new pole of sciences at the Malicorne/Sarthe establishment.

In 2006 he temporarily joined Alstom in the United Kingdom for the development of a surveillance and registration system of real-time data for the "Class 456" diesel automotive.
In 2007 at CIM (Engineering Centre of SNCF French Railway equipment), he developed the command control of the hybrid locomotive prototype LHyDIE in the framework of the PLATHEE project.

Development of the electrical low-power scheme, the computer command code in conformity with the constraints of the different sub-systems like block batteries, super capacitators or SPACT 80 hydrogen fuel cells.
In 2007 he joined the Alstom plant in Belfort as assistant technical head of project for FRET electric locomotives and became head of the R&D department in October 2008.

Serge BOEHM, Commercial and Marketing Director associated with the PERTECH company is in charge of the field of Eye Tracking.

Since June 2008, which corresponded to the end of confidentiality of the 1st stage of R&D works carried out with automobilemanufacturer Renault, carried on in a 2nd stage up to 2012. Since slightly more than one year our expertise has also been recognized by other sectors of transportation systems (aeronautics, motorcycles, pedestrians, …) concerning the studies of the behaviours of drivers (or aircraft pilots) in real-life situations or simulators.

Mr. Serge Boehm, a graduated scientist, is in charge of the development of the reputation of the PERTECH company in different markets representing studies of behaviours, cognitive sciences, ergonomics of HCI, security, education through the sale of Eye Tracking tools and/or "user test" type services.

Mr Filippo Sesia was born in Torino, Italy, on February 23, 1969.
Graduated on February 1996 from Politecnic School of Torino in Mechanical Engineering.
In 1996 joined Fiat Research Center in Vehicle Architectures Department.
Experience as a specialist of vehicle body and interiors structures, leading projects on seats, dashboards and body in whyte.
 
In 1998 joined Fiat Group Automobiles, on quality manufacturing: welding body in whyte and assembly process
From 2002 Program Manager responsible for car interior and exterior components for Fiat models, with the responsability for projects costs and timing.
For 2004 responsible for exterior trim development -design and program managing- for car exterior components.
 
In 2008 he re-joined Fiat Research Center as Head of Vehicle Architectures Business line, leading innovation activities on car body and interiors design and the integration of alternative propulsion systems in the vehicle.
From 2009 Head of Product Research area, including also car systems development.

Franck MASSET - Innovation Project Manager at the Directorate for Advanced Research and Engineering (DRIA). Specialized in fuel cells. In 2000, I joined the team working on fuel cells at PSA Peugeot Citroën, where I was in charge of evaluating different reforming technologies in view of the on-board hydrogene production for application in automobiles. From 2003 to 2006, I was in charge of the conception of fuel cell systems in the framework of the cooperation with AEC, which lead to the development of the GENEPAC battery. Since 2006, I am a Project Manager at DRIA, and I am in charge of a project for conceiving a battery and fuel cell system, dedicated to application in automobiles. The main working axes considered are the improvement of intrinsic performances, increase of life expectancy and cost reduction.