Sustainable hydrogen: still a long way to go?

Cécile Michaut holds a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Paris-XI Orsay. She was a lecturer for two years before branching off into science journalism in 1999. Her collaborations include Le Monde, La Recherche, Pour la Science, Science et vie, Sciences et Avenir, Environnement Magazine... She also teaches science communication and media training for several research organisations and universities. She founded the company Science et partage (www.scienceetpartage.fr), and published the book "Vulgarisation scientifique, mode d'emploi" (EDP Sciences) in 2014.

Johnny Deschamps' main research activities concern the production of green hydrogen from biomass, hydrogen storage by adsorption in porous materials such as organic frameworks, energy materials and the containment of fluids and metals in porous materials. He develops original techniques for doping organic frameworks with carbonaceous materials and metals and teaches "the hydrogen industry" in several prestigious institutions in France and China.

Olivier Perrin is co-developing one of the 4 "Future of Mobility" centres of excellence for Deloitte and works more specifically on strategy and transformation issues related to the energy transition. He has more than 20 years of consulting experience and has worked with many large groups in more than 30 countries.

Alexandre Kuzmanovic is a consultant in strategy and business transformation in various heavy industries (mining, metals, building materials, utilities, energy production, etc.). Prior to consulting, he worked at Saint Gobain in engineering and production management functions.

Didier Dalmazzone is a member of the Management Committee of the Interdisciplinary Centre Energy for Climate of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. He is in charge of the Energy Production and Management course in the 3rd year of the ENSTA Paris engineering curriculum, and is also in charge of the Master's Degree in Energy at IP Paris. His research activities on processes for the energy transition concern the hydrogen sector, CO2 capture and refrigeration.

Laurent Catoire is a professor in applied chemical kinetics, in particular in combustion and in general in all reactive systems. After a DGA thesis, he has been working for 30 years on reactive systems that are little studied, poorly known but with important or potentially important applications (hypergolic systems in space propulsion, civil and military energetic materials (explosives, propellants and gas generators), energetic ionic liquids, nanothermites, aluminium combustion, metal combustion, etc).