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Dr. René DAVID
Scientific Counsellor

Dr. René David (born 1949) is the Counsellor for Science and Technology at the French Embassy in London. He graduated in 1971 as chemical engineer at the “Institut national Polytechnique de Lorraine” in Nancy, France and received its PhD degree in 1976 at the same university. His scientific domain is mixing of liquids and particle generation. Dr. David contributed to 61 articles in international scientific journals, 7 chapters in scientific book and numerous communications in international conferences; He supervised the work of 19 PhD students.

During his international career René David created the office of the “Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique” (CNRS) in Bonn, Germany (1979-82), and was Counsellor at the French Embassies in the Hague (1992-4) and again in Bonn (1994-8).

In between, René David was appointed as deputy director of the CNRS Laboratory of Chemical Engineering Science at Nancy (1983-91) and director of the CNRS Chemical Engineering Laboratory for Particulate Solids at the Ecole des Mines at Albi, France (1998-2005).

In September 2005 he joined the French Embassy in London as Counsellor for Science and Technology.

Dr. Jacques CHEVALIER
Official representative of Inserm in the UK and Deputy Scientific Counsellor

Born March 19th, 1944, Jacques Chevalier has led an Inserm Group of research for almost thirty years. In September 2002, he was assigned by the Director General of Inserm to the Science and Technology Department of the French Embassy in the United Kingdom as official representative of the Inserm in the UK and Deputy Scientific Counsellor.

His scientific work was first devoted to the water channel induced by the antidiuretic hormone in the epithelial cells of kidney collecting duct, using the experimental model of frog bladder. In 1974, he demonstrated for the first time the presence of specific structures, which were inserted at the apical pole of these cells under hormonal challenge. Theses structures have further been demonstrated as the aquaporine AQP2. Then Dr. Chevalier focussed his activities on the exploration of nephropathies associated with metabolic disorders such as obesity, diabetes and hyperlipidemia. He published more than one hundred scientific papers on water permeability, nephropathy and imaging.

As Deputy Counsellor, Jacques Chevalier, in partnership with the Wellcome Trust and the MRC, has developed the Anglo-French Alliance for Tropical Medicine, which now comprises the Wellcome Trust, MRC, DfID, Inserm, CNRS, Pasteur Institute and the Institute for Research and Development (IRD). He has also launched a Joint PhD programme, which allows PhD students to be trained in both countries, under the direction of two supervisors. He is in charge of the Franco-British Hubert Curien “Alliance” partnership. He is involved in the promotion of Inserm European Associated research Laboratories (EAL) and International Interface Contract. He is currently working on the development of clinical research network between France and the UK.

Dr. Anne PROST
Scientific Attaché: physics, chemistry, material sciences

Anne PROST holds an engineering degree from the Ecole polytechnique and a PhD in Solid State Physics from Université Paris XI-Orsay.

Before joining the Science and Technology Department in September 2002, she worked as a research scientist in an industrial research laboratory in Paris and as a management consultant in London. She is in charge of physics, chemistry and material sciences.

Dr. Mariana SAAD
Scientific Attache: Humanities and Social Sciences European Programmes

Mariana Saad (PhD Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1997) joined the Scientific department in November 2002. In 2000 she was awarded a Singer-Polignac Fellowship and in 2001 a Lavoisier – Ministère des affaires étrangères Fellowship. From 2000 to 2002, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine of Oxford Brookes University.
Since April 2006, she is also a Visiting Research Fellow in the History department of Sussex Univeristy. She has published various articles on Idéologie and history of medicine, and in particular on Cabanis. She is the co-editor of the special issue on “Melancholy and the material unity of Man – XVIIth and XVIIIth century” of the Swiss journal Gesnerus (2006).

Mrs Laure CHELBI
PA to the Counsellor and Secretary of the Department

Since March 2005, I am PA to the Counsellor and Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology.

My previous positions were as PA and/or secretary in a variety of areas : shipping, diplomatic, oil exploration and production, and higher education.

Abdelkader HADJ SADOK
Deputy Scientific Attache: Information and Communication Technologies

Abdelkader HADJ SADOK graduated in 2007 as IT engineer at the ENIVL : Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs du Val de Loire, France in 2007. Specialised in IT purchasing, he worked at Econocom as network administrator and then at EDF in Paris as a purchasing engineer in IT.

In Agust 2007 he joined the French Embassy in London as Deputy Scientific Attache in Information and Communication Technologies and Science. Furthermore, he manage the network and the web site of the DST.