Research areas: Characterization of the Drying of Food Products, Culture and Drying of Micro Algae, Extraction and Stabilization of Pigments, Encapsulation, Application of Design Methods to North South Technology Transfer.
Short biography: Hélène DESMORIEUX holds a Ph.D in energy and processes from LEMTA-ENSEM, Nancy. Assistant lecturer in physics, at the former National School of Agro-Food Industries (ENSIAAC) in Ngaoundere-Cameroon for 4 years, Hélène DESMORIEUX is currently an Associate Professor at the University Claude Bernard Lyon1, where she teaches courses on process engineering: transfer phenomena, fluid mechanics, operations on solids, design applied to process engineering. Hélène DESMORIEUX regularly provides support to students in their professional project and in their search for an internship. She was responsible for the bachelor’s degree in chemical industrial process engineering, then for the Master 1 in physico-chemical process engineering at the University Claude Bernard Lyon1. She was also responsible for the information structuring project for teaching process engineering. Hélène DESMORIEUX is very interested in transversal scientific activities, in particular the transfer of technology, the valorization of agrifood products by drying and for the countries of the South. She is interested in a global vision of the technology transfer of dryers in the energy, technological, social, economic aspects and in the quality of the products after drying. She has worked on the drying of many products including spirulina as well as on the extraction of pigments. She works for the dissemination of theoretical knowledge and a rapprochement between this theoretical knowledge and practical know-how on drying and on spirulina, by developing collaborations and international courses, with several universities in sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Central America and Asia, particularly in Vietnam, with a teaching and research collaboration in partnership between Lyon1 and the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi. Hélène DESMORIEUX supervised 8 defended theses and more than 30 master’s internships. She has about thirty scientific articles.
