KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
 | Dr. Hab. Alain BOURMAUD |
| Institution: University of South Brittany, Dupuy de Lôme Research Institute (IRDL), UMR CNRS 6027 | |
| Research Interest: Multiscale characterization of plant fibres; Link between ultrastructure and mechanical properties of plant fibres; Processing and recycling of plant fibres composites; Impact of growing conditions and environmental stress on flax and plant fibres properties. Study of ancient flax fibres. | |
| Keynote Lecture: Multi-scale impact of flax fibres specificity on textile preforms and biocomposite properties |
Short biography:
Alain Bourmaud is Researcher at the University of South Brittany since Sept. 2001. He received a master degree in polymer engineering in 1993 (Laboratory of Rheology of Saint-Etienne, France), and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, about the multi scale characterization of biocomposites in 2011 (University of South Brittany). Finally, he obtained the French habilitation to manage research (HDR) in 2017 (University of South Brittany). He published around 155 papers in international journals on biocomposite processing or plant fibre structure and properties; he supervised 18 PhD students and 3 post-doc (currently 4 PhD students). Alain is also the scientific coordinator of the FLOWER project (INTERREG Cross-Channel, 8 partners, 4.6M€, 2018-2022) and scientific leader of of a French Research Project dedicated to the study of old Egyptian flax fibres (ANUBIS, 2021-2025, 1.2 M€). Alain Bourmaud is involved in many research collaborations at the national (FEMTO, INRA, ENIT, CIMAP, PBS, ICUBE, Centrale Supelec….) and international (UoKazan, Bremen, UoPortsmouth, UoCambridge, Scion NZ…) scale. He has also built research links with a number of industrial partners in the field of biocomposites and plant fibres (PSA group, APM, Zodiac, Dedienne, Depestele, Ecotechnilin, Kaïros, Addiplast). Finally Alain Bourmaud is expert for Horizon Europe projects, MSC fellowships or other French scientific calls.
 | Assoc. prof. Yiska GOLDFELD |
| Institution: Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering TECHNION – Israel Institute of Technology | |
| Research Interest: Textile reinforced concrete structures, structural health monitoring and development of smart self-sensory concrete structures, stability of shell structures. | |
| Keynote Lecture: Smart self-sensory Textile Reinforced Concrete Structures - Achievements & Challenges |
Short biography:
Yiska Goldfeld is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She is the head of the Intelligent Structures Laboratory (ISLab) at the National Building Research Institute at the Technion. Her research interests are in the fields of textile reinforced concrete (TRC) structures, structural health monitoring, smart self-sensory concrete and TRC structures, and stability of shell structures.
Dr. Goldfeld obtained both her B.Sc. degree (1995, summa cum laude) and her Ph.D. (2002, direct Ph.D. track) from the Faculty of Civil and Environmental at the Technion. She also obtained an M.B.A degree (1999) from Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Before joining the Technion in 2004, she was a post-doctoral fellow in the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TUDelft, The Netherlands.
