Prof. Gilles Flamant is a senior scientist at CNRS (Director of Research), his research activities are related to:

• Radiation heat transfer in semi-transparent media;
• High temperature solar receivers;
• Solar process engineering: Hydrogen production,thermal treatment and elaboration of materials.

Prof. Gilles Flamant is author or co-author of more than 200 publications in international scientific journals. He supervised 30 PhD theses. He is Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. G. Flamant is president of S.10 of the National Scientific Research Committee and of the Scientific Council of the DERBI cluster.