Program

Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli

Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli was born in Salé, Morocco. After obtaining her Baccalaureate Degree in Rabat, she traveled abroad to follow her postgraduate studies and got her Ph.D. in Physics at the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France. Her first steps in research started with heavy ion Physics. In 1982, back in Morocco, she joined the Faculty of Sciences, University Mohammed V, Rabat as a researcher-professor and since 1996 until 2017, she worked as a head of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory. This responsibility led her to develop several themes around nuclear applications and to implement several masters at the university, especially the first master of medical physics in Morocco. She has been one of the precursors of Morocco’s official participation in the international collaboration ATLAS at CERN in Geneva on 1996.

2017. Cherkaoui became Vice-President of Mohammed V University from 2013 to 2017. Aside to that, she became a resident member of the Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technology in Morocco as well as a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences and of The World Academy of Sciences.

She received the L’Oréal-UNESCO award for “Women in Science” on 2015. On 2017, she has been honored for her contribution in science and technology fields in the Islamic world by by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

Geneviève Guinot

Dr Geneviève Guinot joined CERN in 2006 as a Human Resources generalist. She is currently Deputy Head of Human Resources, member of CERN HR Management Board where she contributes to designing and implementing CERN HR strategy. She is also responsible for the unit in charge of Compensation and Benefits, managing projects, processes and daily operations in the area of social welfare, financial and social benefits, classification and remuneration. She was for more than 4 years (2014-2018), Head of CERN Diversity Office driving and implementing the diversity policy.

Geneviève has a dual background. Holder of a PhD in engineering from Ecole Centrale de Paris, France, she started her career as a scientist in the oil industry. She made the move to human resources early in her career for her passion for people development. Since then she graduated with a Bachelor in Law and a Master’s in HR.

Regina Honu

Regina is the CEO of Soronko Solutions. She just opened the first coding and human centered design school for children and adults called Soronko Academy. She was just awarded the 2018 AFS Active Global Citizen Award​ for her contributions to global competence education and a winner of the Challenging Norms, Powering Economies initiative by Ashoka, Un Women and Open Society Foundations for  work to challenge gender norms in women’s economic empowerment

She recently spoke at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris and on closing the gender gap in computer science. She also spoke at Brookings Institute in Washington DC on Advancing Female entrepreneurship in Africa. She is an ambassador and mentor for thecamp, first European campus dedicated to emerging technology and social innovation. She is listed as one of BBC 100 most inspirational and innovative women for 2017.She was also recently interviewed by Bishop TD Jakes. She was awarded the 2017 Northwestern University Buffet Institute for Emerging Global Leaders Award and awarded by Coca Cola in the Coca Cola young achievers award as one of the big six and a leader in technology. She was also unveiled as the 2016 Vlisco Brand Ambassador. She won Startup Entrepreneur of the year and Soronko Solutions won Social Start-up of the year for 2016 at the Ghana Startup Awards. She was featured on CNN as one the 12 inspirational women who rock STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). She was named as one of the six women making an impact in Tech in Africa and one of 10 female entrepreneurs to watch in emerging economies. She was awarded Young Entrepreneur of the year by the GPA Awards from Africa 2.0 and JCI Ghana Outstanding Young Person award for scientific and technological advancement. Soronko Solutions was nominated for the editor’s choice award in the Women in IT award in the UK. She was featured on CNN African Voices,CNN African Startups and interviewed by BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle and Aljazeera. She is an Ashoka Fellow,Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow, GOOD Fellow, Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum, Vital Voices Fellow and a Change Leader with Tigo Reach For Change. She belongs to Africa Leadership Initiative West Africa .

Her story was published in the Lean In for Graduates by Sheryl Sandberg COO of Facebook, Impatient Optimist blog by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and was a finalist for the ITU African Digital Woman of the Year. She is a Mandela Washington Fellow and had the honour of meeting Barack and Michelle Obama. She also recently returned from China from participating in the World Economic Forum Meeting of New Champions which focused on Science and Technology. She is part of the advisory board on a project to amend the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to include Digital rights of a child. She loves to mentor and has been invited to speak and mentor the Camfed master card scholars program, TedxLabone, TedxDartmouth, University Events, Symposium at Harvard University and at Oxford University. She has been invited to speak and participate in events in over 15 countries. She is an online mentor with the Women’s Tech Connect Global Mentoring program. She was awarded a Women of Courage Award for Technology and Tech Needs Girls was awarded in the Ghana CSR Diary Awards.

Colette Lewiner

Dr Colette Lewiner has graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (a leading French higher education University)  and has a PhD in physics. In November 1979, after around 10 years spent as a physics researcher, she joined Electricité de France(EDF), she headed the Fuel Procurement division (purchasing fuel oil, gas, coal and mainly nuclear fuel)and then she became in 1989 EDF’s first woman Executive Vice Presidentin charge of the Commercial division that she created. Colette Lewiner was appointed Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, of SGNon March 1992. When she took SGN leadership, this engineering Company revenue was only in the nuclear sector and at 90% for its main shareholder Cogema. She expanded this 9 000 persons top class engineering and services Company internationally and added a Chemical branch. In 1998, SGN revenues had grown (despite its decreasein France ) and non-French clients(US, Japan..)accounted for 30% of the revenues. In 1998, Colette Lewiner joined Capgemini and created the Utilities Global Market Unit. In May 2000, following the merger of Cap Gemini and Ernst & Young,Colette was nominated Executive Vice President and Global Leader of the Energy, Utilities and ChemicalsSector. In 2011, with 1bn€ revenue this global Unit represented 11% of Capgemini’s revenue (compared to 4% in 1998) had more than 11 000 collaborators. After having lead during 14 years the “Energy, Utilities and Chemicals” sector, Colette became on July 1^st2012, Senior Energy advisor to Capgemini Chairman. In addition, Colette was TDF chairwoman (from September 2010 to April 2015). She is presently independent Board Directorat EDF (Electricité de France), Bouygues Group, Nexans, GETLINK (formerly Eurotunnel), and CGG.

Ingrid Wünning Tschol

After receiving her PhD in Zoology from the University of Tübingen in 1985, Ingrid did her postdoctoral work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, and State University of Stony Brook, US from 1985-1990. Further career steps include positions as Head of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in Bonn and Head of the European Medical Research Councils at European Science Foundation (ESF) in Strasbourg, France. She joined the Robert Bosch Foundation in 1999, first as Head of Research, since 2005 as Senior Vice President Research, and later as Senior Vice President Strategic Development. Amongst many other activities she initiated and designed AcademiaNet, an internet platform for outstanding female researchers. Her numerous committee activities include membership in national and international bodies, such as membership in the Board of Trustees (BOT) as Co-Initiator of the Next Einstein Forum (NEF), Africa; BOT Falling Walls Conference in Berlin; BOT University of Ulm; BOT Natural History Museum in Berlin, the German Museum in Munich, the African Agricultural Technology Fund  (AATF) in Nairobi and Vice Chair of ERAB (European Research Area Board, advising the EU-Commissioner for Research); She is Co-Initiator of the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF), Member of ESOF Supervisory Board, Vice Chair/Co-Chair/ Member Steering Committees and Programme Committees of ESOF 2006-2020. In 2019 she received the Woman of the Decade Awardof the Women Economic Forum in New Delhi.

Ernesto Fernandez Polcuch

Ernesto Fernandez Polcuch is a Science Diplomat, specialist in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy, with a M.Sc. in Science, Technology and Society from the National University of Quilmes, Argentina. As Chief of Section for Science Policy and Partnerships in the Natural Sciences Sector of UNESCO, he manages global UNESCO programmes in STI Policy, Science Communication, Gender and STEM, Science Diplomacy, and Science-Policy-Society linkages, including the UNESCO Global Observatory of STI Policy Instruments GO-SPIN, the UNESCO Science Report, the L’Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science Programme, and the STEM and Gender Advancement (SAGA) Project. He has previously been posted at the UNESCO Regional Office for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean, in Montevideo, and the UNESCO Windhoek Cluster Office. He also led the Science and Technology Statistics team at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics in Montreal. Before joining UNESCO, he worked as a researcher, professor, government adviser and consultant in Argentina and the Latin America and Caribbean region.

François PIUZZI

Physical chemist (basic research) PhD in Physical Chemistry, Research engineer at the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) since 1982, retired 2014. Teaching: application of lasers in Physical Chemistry at University Paris XI (Orsay) and at the University Paris VI (Jussieu).

Research management: Member  to the National Agency for Research. (ANR) “Scientific Committee Sciences for Engineering” (2005-2007). Project officer for Nanosciences at the French ministry of high Education and Research (MESR  2010-2013), French delegate to the NMP (Nanosciences Materials Production) committee of the EU commission at Brussels. Member of the committee of the “Photoniques” Journal  (Journal of the French optical Society) (since 2006). Founder of the Instrumentation award in Physical Chemistry (2007). Member of the Board of the Division of Physical Chemistry (SFC-SFP) (since 2004).

International cooperation in science : Chairman (2016-now) of the “Physics without Borders” commission of the French Physical Society. Former Chairman of the Inter-division group “Physics for Development” of the European Physical Society (EPS) (2009-2015). Founder and former president of the association “Puya Raimondi”, Franco-Peruvian and Latino-American scientific cooperation association (2004-now). Member of APSA committee (Association pour la Promotion Scientifique de l’Afrique) and co-organizer of the « Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs Africains Francophones » (2014 and 2016). Honorary Professor of the National University of Engineering (UNI) (2005) and the University Ricardo Palma (2013), Lima, Peru.

Olivier De Fresnoye

Olivier de Fresnoye is a specialist in open source and community-based projects. With a dual scientific and economic background, he has developed several “open” projects using collective intelligence in France and abroad. Co-founder of the echOpen project (connected ultrasound probe) and coordinator of the Epidemium program (collaborative research on cancer using open data), he participates in several working groups on new technologies and their scientific and societal contributions with a focus in the field of health.

Mejdi Nciri

Tianheng Zhao

Frédérick BORDRY

Frédérick BORDRY, has a degree in engineering and a PhD in energy conversion from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INPT). After a two-year teaching post at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil), he took up a teaching and research post in Toulouse before joining the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1986. From 2009 to 2013, he was the Head of the CERN Technology Department. Since January 2014, he is the Director of Accelerators and Technology, responsible for the operation and exploitation of the whole CERN accelerator complex, with particular emphasis on the LHC and for the development of new projects and technologies. As a convinced advocate of international exchange in the cultural, political and scientific fields, he has devoted a considerable amount of time towards reflecting on issues relating to education, research, and multilingualism.

Giovanni Anelli

Giovanni joined CERN’s Knowledge Transfer Group in 2010 as Technology Transfer Officer and was appointed Head of the Knowledge Transfer Group in August 2011.

Before he worked for three years for LEM SA, a company market leader in providing solutions for measuring electrical parameters, where he was managing projects on the design of Integrated Circuits (ICs) for current transducers to be used in industrial and automotive applications.

Prior to this, Giovanni worked for 10 years in CERN’s Microelectronics Group (Physics Department), where he designed several low-noise low-power analog and mixed signal VLSI circuits for High-Energy Physics applications. His research work also dealt with techniques to design radiation tolerant integrated circuits in deep submicron CMOS technologies, an approach which is now employed by the large majority of the integrated circuits of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

Giovanni received a M.S. in Electronics Engineering from the Polytechnic of Milan (Italy) in 1997, a Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering (with honors) from the Polytechnic of Grenoble (France) in 2000 and an EMBA from HEC in Paris (France) in 2008. He is author and co-author of more than 70 publications and is an IEEE senior member.

Becky Parker

After a physics degree and research at the University of Chicago, Becky taught in a variety of schools and found when she offered genuine research opportunities to her students they thrived in the subject, girls and boys alike.  Setting up the Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS) was to scale this approach across the county and there is huge enthusiasm for authentic science from both school students and teachers.  IRIS is based at the Science Museum and Becky’s teaching base is in Sheffield. Becky was awarded an MBE in 2008.  She is visiting professor at Queen Mary, University of London.  In the summer of 2016 she was awarded the Kavli Education Medal from the Royal Society.