CONFERENCES

Pascal XANTHOPOULOS is currently a part-time lecturer on wood chemistry at the School of Wood Science and Timber Engineering ENSTIB (University of Lorraine), the only national and university engineering school specialized in wood in France. The lectures are supported by concrete case studies showing promising wood bio-refinery initiatives despite the challenges to overcome.
2022

Presentation of paper entitled «100% biosourced natural packaging from brown algae derivatives - An alternative to plastic materials» at the Innovative Natural Ingredients Madagascar (INIM), Antananarivo, Madagascar.

2021

Presentation of the project «Pack 3 in 1» at the contest “The Cosmetic Victories” organized by Cosmetic Valley and ESSEC, Paris, France.

2021

Presentation of the project «Pack 3 in 1» at the contest “Re-invent the Planet” organized by the French Consultancy Hege Conseils and Mines Nancy, Strasbourg, France.

2018

Presentation of paper entitled «Reinventing wood chemistry for the development of innovative foams» at the AMI Polymer Foam conference in Hamburg, Germany.

2018

Presentation of paper entitled «Reinventing wood chemistry for the development of innovative foams» at the AMI Polymer Foam conference in Hamburg. The paper was jointly presented by Silvateam, the world market leader of tannins extracts, and PolyBridge®.

2018

Presentation of paper «Valorisation moléculaire des extractibles des connexes bois» (molecular repurposing of wood-related extractives) at the reflection day «Perspectives d’émergence d’une filière forêt-chimie des extractibles» (prospects for the emergence of a forestry-chemistry industry for extractives) organised by AgroParisTech and the INRA, Nancy, France.

2017

Presentation of paper «Re-invent wood chemistry, innovate for all» at the WOODCHEM scientific congress, Nancy, France.

2017

Presentation of initiative «d’Economie circulaire focalisée sur la valorisation des extractibles du bois» (circular economy focused on the repurposing of wood extractives) at the conference organised by the «Écologie des Forêts, Prairies et milieux Aquatiques (EFPA)» (Forest, Grassland and Aquatic Ecology) department of the INRA, Pont à Mousson, France.

2016

Presentation of a «Méthodologie de montage de projets dans le cadre du développement d’une filière chimie du bois» (Methodology of project creation as part of the development of a wood-chemistry industry) at the « Management de projets collaboratifs » (collaborative project management) day organised by the «Centre Européen de Recherche en Économie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises (CEREFIGE)» (European Centre of Research for Financial Economy and Company Management) at the University of Lorraine, France.

2015

Presentation of paper «Forestry biomass market for bioproducts» at the AGROBIOTECH symposium, Ourense, Spain.

2015

Presentation of initiatives de «bioéconomie et de valorisation de la biomasse bois» (bio-economy and repurposing of wood biomass) at the «European Chemicals Regions Network Project Council» summit (ECRN) with the Minister of Economic Affairs of Bavaria and directors of the Chemistry Cluster of Bayern, Munich, Germany.

2014

Presentation of paper «Re-invent wood chemistry, innovate for all» at the Europe India Technology sourcing (EITS) congress, Metz, France.

2012

Presentation of the « plateforme chimie du bois » at the congress « 1st International Chemical Network Summit (ICNS 2012) / ACHEMA », Frankfort, Allemagne.

2012

Presentation of paper of the «plateforme chimie du bois» (wood-chemistry platform) at the «1st International Chemical Network Summit (ICNS 2012) / ACHEMA» congress, Frankfurt, Germany.

Re-invent wood chemistry,
Innovate for all