Our story

Florine Maes

CEO and co-founder

PhD

For more than 10 years, Florine has had knowledge and a broad vision in physical chemistry of polymers and soft matter, and in droplet-based microfluidics.

After her doctorate at the Mines ParisTech, she joined the team of Jean-Christophe Baret at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen in 2012, then continued to work alongside Jean-Christophe Baret at CRPP in 2014. Florine joined as a Business Developer in January 2017 on the FluoSurf project which led to the creation of the company Emulseo in September 2018 and of which she is the CEO.

Didier Roux

Vice President

PhD

Member of the Academy of Sciences – Member of the Academy of Technology
Didier Roux was born in 1955, a former student of ENS Saint-Cloud, member of the CNRS from 1980 to 2005.

He is a laureate of numerous awards and honors. He holds the CNRS silver medal. He created two start-ups in 1994 and 1998, he was deputy scientific director of Rhône Poulenc and Rhodia between 1997 and 2005. He held the position of Director of R & D and Innovation of the Saint-Gobain Group between 2005 and 2017 Saint Gobain.

He is a member of the Institut de France (Academy of Sciences) and the Academy of Technology. He was a professor at the Collège de France (2016-2017 annual chair “Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt”).

He is President of Unitec, Vice-President of the Foundation La Main à la Pâte and Delegate for Scientific Information and Communication of the Académie des Sciences.

Valérie Scappaticci

CFO

Valérie Scappaticci graduated from the EM Lyon business school with an MBA (finance and accounting), she is also a certified public accountant and auditor.. She worked for 25 years in auditing and management consulting at EY and PWC, in France and abroad (Australia, Spain). As Associate Director at EY, she focused on accompanying innovative companies in their strategic development, through mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs.

In 2013, determined to take up an entrepreneurial challenge, she co-founded Aelis Farma, a biotech company, and was initially its Chief Executive Officer, before switching to a CFO role in 2017. She was key in enabling the company to structure itself from a start up company to a listed entity, in securing the financing required by its development programs, in establishing a major manufacturing partnership, and in listing the company onto the French regulated stock market in 2022.

In 2023, she chose to invest her energy into helping innovative startup companies in facing the challenges of fund raising and structuring of their activities. Emulseo was a logical first choice since Valérie has been a member of its strategic committee since 2019, and is also one of its shareholders.

Justine Bunot

Office Manager

After studying in a Business and Management School, Justine quickly developed her skills in international project management and administration by joining two companies in the United States and in England.

She held the position of Project Manager for almost 6 years. Justine has a strong interest in communication and marketing and is extending her experience in the development of human-sized companies.

Loïc Pichavant

CTO - R&D Engineer

PhD

As a Chemical engineer, Loïc specialized in polymer chemistry during his thesis at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne. For nearly ten years, Loïc worked on the synthesis of polymers with controlled architectures for biomedical applications (vectorization, drug delivery …) at the Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques (LCPO) and is co-author more than 20 publications and one patent.

Jérôme Buchoux

Production Manager

After studying engineering chemistry, Jérôme has begun his career in fats and oils extraction and purification. Then he continued his professional experience in cosmetic materials process development and industrialization.

He joined the Emulseo team in April 2022, where he is working as production operations manager.

He is in charge of the chemical reactor where the magic happens: thanks to Jerome’s attention to details, the surfactants syntheses are all perfect to meet our customers satisfaction.

Estelle Andre

Microfluidic Applications Engineer

PhD

After studying chemistry in an engineering school in Toulouse (ENSIACET), Estelle specialized in droplet-based microfluidics during her PhD at IFP Energies nouvelles in Rueil-Malmaison.

Then she joined CEA Grenoble to work as a post-doc on pancreas-on-chip.

Her different experiences gave Estelle a strong interest in microfluidics for biotechnology applications.

Hamza Ouattara

Microfluidic Analyses Technician

Hamza is specialized in the analysis and formulation of dispersed environment (emulsion formulation, complex fluid formulation with polymers or particles…) during his technical studies at the University of Bordeaux.

He has since worked as technician R&D in the research laboratory, on enhanced oil recovery (EOR), improving the performance of detergents or the gelcoat formulation.

GAËTAN GILBERT

COO

After studying at Tours Business School, Gaetan graduated from Master 2 (DEA) in Business Organization at  IAE of Tours in 2003.

After 5 years in business efficiency consulting, he joined Bordeaux as an account manager in IT and finance for 4 years.

He created his company in 2012, raising funds in 2018.

He has held the position of start-up manager for the major incubator of the Bordeaux for 7 years before joining EMULSEO in 2022, to take responsibility for operations, including Commerce, Marketing, IS.

SÉGOLÈNE ANTOINE

Scientific Account Manager

PhD

After studying polymer chemistry, Ségolène obtained a PhD in polymer science at the University of Bordeaux in 2017.

In 2018, she moved to the USA where she was working as a Project Scientist and Project Leader at UCSB on Block CoPolymers for energy applications. After 3 years in California, she came back in 2021 in Bordeaux to work on Polymer Science for nano-medicine applications before joining Emulseo in 2022.

At Emulseo, Ségolène is applying her strong understanding of the surfactant’s properties and behavior in the droplet microfluidic field. She is using her knowledge to support, advise and assist Emulseo customers.

RAYAN BEN SALAH

Account Manager

Currently in his second year of a master’s degree in International Trade and Emerging Countries at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Rayan is doing a sandwich course program at Emulseo as an Account Manager.

His previous professional experiences and his background have given him a better understanding of the international world and its needs.

CHRISTIAN VENARD

Supply Chain Coordinator

After 3 years of experience in food business management in Lima, and 2 years as a supply chain manager in the electronics industry, Christian joined Emulseo to take care of logistics flows.

These previous experiences allowed him to better understand the challenges of transport and supply.