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.

Jean-Christophe Baret

Professor - University of Bordeaux

JCB obtained his PhD in 2005 from the Univ. Twente in a collaboration with Philips Research on electrocapillarity. He then moved to a post-doc position in Strasbourg at ISIS with A.Griffiths, where he contributed to the early developments of droplet based microfluidics for high throughput screening in biology. In 2010, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and self organization in Goettingen as a group leader, where he obtained an ERC starting grant project Sofi, followed by the ERC proof of concept FluoSurf. Both projects led to the creation of emulseo in 2018.

Since 2014, he is full professor at the Univ Bordeaux and research group leader at the CNRS lab CRPP. He is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France since 2016. He was awarded the Prix de la Fondation Del Duca en 2020 and the Prix Forcheur Jean-Marie Lehn with T. Erb in 2020.

Besides fundamental research using microfluidics, JCB is promoting the technological transfer of droplet based microfluidics towards the industry, with Emulseo and other companies. As a recent example his group has partnered with Carbios on microfluidic screening of enzymes for plastic recycling. JCB serves as an editor for the journal Lab on a Chip (Royal Society of Chemistry), the leading journal for microfluidics since 2022.

Valérie TALY

Research Director - University of Paris Descartes

Valerie Taly is CNRS research director class 1 (DR1) and Group leader of Translational Research And Microfluidics group (TRAM) within the MEPPOT laboratory (Personalized medicine, pharmacogenomics and therapeutic optimization) located in the Cordeliers Research Center. Her group performs interdisciplinary researches aiming at developing microfluidic tools for cancer research in close collaboration with clinicians and researchers in oncology. In particular, this team has been pioneered in the development of droplet based digital PCR to detect tumor specific genetic and epigenetic alterations as well as on the applications of the developed technologies to clinically relevant questions including liquid biopsy analysis. She is co-author of >120 scientific articles and co-inventor of 13 patents. She is regularly invited to set on various comittees, boards and jurys. In addition to being co-founder of emulseo, she is also co-founder, alongside Guillaume Gines, Benjamin Nayagom, Pierre Laurent-Puig & Yannick Rondelez, of METHYS Dx start-up company that develop innovative technologies for cancer patient follow-up.

Valérie Scappaticci

Founder of Aelis Farma, former Director at EY

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.