The Solar Academy will be managed by Prof. Monika Woloszyn, assisted by Prof. Christophe Ménézo as Deputy Director for national and international partnerships.
Monika Woloszyn is a full professor at the University of Savoie Mont Blanc, since 2011. Director of the LOCIE research unit, she is also heavily involved in collaborations between CEA and LOCIE. Her research interests cover various topics, from coupled heat and mass transfer in building envelopes to the global environmental performance of solar buildings, including the impact of occupants.
Monika Woloszyn co-authored 52 articles in international journals (Building and Environment, Solar Energy, Energy and Buildings, etc.) and approximately 100 papers in international and national conferences (Scopus h-index=16). A member of scientific committees for several international conferences, she is associate editor of Building and Environment. She has received several awards and has been a recipient (since 2010) of the French Scientific Quality Bonus (PES – prime d’excellence scientifique). Monika Woloszyn also participated in the ANR evaluation committee and served as a member of Comeval (Multidisciplinary Advisory Board for Recruitment and Career Assessment for Researchers of the French Ministry of Ecology Transition).
Monika Woloszyn is actively participating in numerous research projects: International Energy Agency, National Research Agency (ANR), ADEME, Region. Her involvement in training is also significant: she holds different responsibilities in Master's curricula, and at doctoral level she co-supervised 23 PhD students (17 completed). Contact
Prof. Christophe Ménézo He is Director of the CNRS Research Federation on Solar Energy (FédESol) and is the Green/smart building group leader of the French/Singaporean CNRS/CEA/NTU Network (IRN CNRS) on Renewable Energy (SINERGIE). He is an associate member of ISES International Solar Energy Society and a member of the board of directors (elected in May 2015) of the competitiveness cluster TENERRDIS. With L. Gaillard, he is co-founder of a startup project (Ab Initio project, supported by SATT Linskium). He has been the French representative in the EU COST-Action network on "Adaptive Facades" (January 2015-2019) and a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the EURAC Institute for Renewable Energy (2014-2017). He led the Chair "Habitats and Energy Innovations," INSA Foundation/Electricity of France from January 2011 to December 2015. He has been Ass. Prof. at UC Lyon1 and researcher on solar systems for 15 years at the Thermal Center of Lyon (CETHIL-UC Lyon1/CNRS). In 2004, he created and became the coordinator of the Solar Systems Team.
His current research is led at the INES, LOCIE lab and focuses on building integration of solar components (especially on photovoltaic and hybrid PV/Th solar components), redefinition of building envelopes conventionally concerned with insulation and sealing in order to include dynamic and active features (energy collect and conversion, ventilated solar envelope) and more recently on solar energy potential at city scale (solar cadastre) especially on Greater Geneva (as French leader of the Interreg G2 Solaire project). He is co-author of 47 international journal papers (Scopus), 70 international conference papers, 3 book chapters, and 1 book (2018) on bio-inspired engineering (h-index: 18, WOS). Awards and international distinctions include being invited as Guest of Honor at SOLARIS 2012 in Varanasi, India; being awarded in 2017 as best French researcher in solar energy; and receiving the 2018 Chinese Academy of Sciences President's International Fellowship Initiative award. Contact