• Supercritical separation from liquid mixtures in packed contactors: thermodynamics, experimental investigations, methodology development, modelling, process simulation.
• Supercritical separation of solutes from solid matrices for extraction or purification : experimental investigations at lab from pilot scale, process phenomenological modeling.
• Use of CO₂ as a solvent for chemical or biochemical transformation: fluid phase equilibrium engineering, batch-mode experimentation, kinetics, extractive-reaction.
• Use of CO₂ as solvent and a reactant for organic or mineral carbonation.
• Supercritical microfluidics: development of high-pressure resistant, cheap and transparent microfluidic devices, hydrodynamics study, mass-transfer.

Research interest: Green process engineering, High-pressure experiments, Phase equilibrium engineering

Applications: Biomass valorization, material transformation, biomedical devices

Research supervision of PhD students:  10 PhD students &  7 post-docs

Teaching activities: Chemical Engineering for regular and apprenticeship students at ENSIACET: Thermodynamics, Separation processes, Supercritical fluid extraction, Chemical Reactor Engineering

Collaborators:

Academic partners : CIRIMAT, LCC, LCA, IMRCP, LISBP, IMT-RAPSODEE

Industries and private organisms : Sanofi, CIMV

International: University of Cordoba (Argentina), Tohoku University (Japan), University of Chulalongkorn (Thaïland)