Four new directors appointed at Arts et Métiers

Four women appointed to leadership positions at Arts et Métiers 

Since 2021, Marie Brandewinder heads the Arts et Métiers incubator, which supports start-ups specializing in innovative and sustainable industrial projects: mobility, robotics, materials, medical devices, energy, greentech, deeptech, services and technologies for industry, and Industry 4.0. In 2024, she was appointed Director of Innovation and head of the Start Up Alliance, which, in addition to the Incubator, constitutes a complete ecosystem conducive to the development of industrial start-ups. Start-ups will find both the R&D expertise of Arts et Métiers group Arts et Métiers financial and technical partners.  

After becoming the first woman to head an Arts et Métiers campus, Catherine Davy On July 15, she took over as director of the Lille campus, where she plans to focus on transitions (energy, ecological, societal). She is committed to implementing the institution's strategic project in the region: the development of an Evolutive Learning Factory ELF) on campus, with production lines representative of the industry of the future, fully digitized and backed up by digital twins. Catherine Davy also intends to uphold the School's commitments to corporate social responsibility (CSR).

With over 20 years of experience in higher education and research, Amandine Duffoux has held several senior positions at various engineering schools, notably at EIGSI La Rochelle & Casablanca and the ESAIP group in Angers. In July 2024, she joined Arts et Métiers director of the Angers campus and the Laval Institute. Her goal is to help these campuses continue their transformation to become models in terms of the deployment of shared research and teaching technology platforms. She is delighted with the upcoming inauguration of the new technology hall, which will house the IRT Jules Verne, as well as the building incorporating a brand new learning center, the Angers University Institute of Technology, and the National School of Military Infrastructure Engineers.

Tatiana Reyes was appointed director of the Institut Arts et Métiers Chambéry in June 2024. She wants to play an active role in an ambitious development plan that addresses socio-ecological challenges by helping to build and structure a project that supports industrial transformation toward regional resilience and sustainability. Tatiana Reyes also aims to participate in the life of the I2M laboratory, in collaboration with theArts et Métiers laboratoriesArts et Métiers LISPEN, LCPI, etc.). Through new academic, socio-economic, and institutional partnerships in the territories of influenceArts et Métiers, she intends to develop the Institute's influence at the local, national, and international levels.

Their journeys

A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure (ENS ULM) and holder of an agrégation in modern literature, Marie Brandewinder then turned her attention to the social sciences. Her doctoral thesis analyzes the spread of managerial logic in media companies. She then worked at Physip, an innovative company in the field of neurotechnology, where she managed academic partnerships, then collaborative projects, fundraising, industrial partnerships, and all aspects of business development. Passionate about contemporary challenges related to transformation, particularly digital transformation and reindustrialization, which encompass energy, environmental, and social issues, she joined Arts et Métiers 2021 to take over as director of the Arts et Métiers incubator, then as director of innovation in 2024.

Catherine Davy is a general engineer who graduated from École Centrale de Nantes in 1996. She is also a graduate of École Normale Supérieure, an associate professor of mechanics (since 1997), and a doctor of École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Cachan since 2001. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge (Great Britain), followed by a second postdoctoral fellowship at the Faculty of Dental Surgery in Nantes, she was a lecturer and then professor at the École Centrale de Lille for 18 years. Catherine Davy holds a qualification to supervise research (HDR) from the University of Lille and has spent most of her career as a teacher-researcher in engineering sciences and materials mechanics. From 2022 to 2024, she headed the Arts et Métiers campus Arts et Métiers and the Laval Institute. On July 15, she took over as director of the Arts et Métiers campus Arts et Métiers Lille.

Alongside her research activities in the field of XML mining, Amandine Duffoux quickly became involved in managing and developing international training courses and projects. First at ESAIP Angers, where she was responsible for international Bachelor's and Master's degree programs, offered at five sites in France and in partnership with a dozen European universities. She also participated in the deployment of continuing education programs on databases and decision-making with several European universities as part of various European projects in the Lifelong Learning Program. She then became head of the Computer Engineering and Networks program and in 2011, she joined EIGSI La Rochelle & Casablanca as coordinator of the Network and Information Systems Integration major, before becoming head of teaching and studies in 2014. She then held the position of Head of Educational Innovation before taking up the position of Director of Digital and Information Systems in January 2019. In addition to her role in supporting the institution's digital transformation, she has also served as Chief Information Security Officer and Data Protection Officer. Since 2020, she has led the Digital Strategies and Distance Learning working group of the Conférence des grandes écoles (CGE). She has also been a member of the jury for the Jean-François Fiorina Prize for the recognition of educational innovation in grandes écoles since its creation.

A lecturer and researcher at the University of Technology of Troyes (UTT) since 2007, Tatiana Reyes joined the Institut Arts et Métiers Chambéry in 2023. She has participated in numerous national and international research projects throughout her career. Beyond her academic activities, she is co-founder and member of the EcoSD Network, France's leading network of researchers and engineers in eco-design of sustainable systems, facilitating exchanges with French companies and institutions. She is also deputy scientific director of the S-Mart Scientific Interest Group, which is involved in the industry of the future. In terms of research, her favorite topics are sustainable design, sustainable value assessment, and low-tech. Since 2023, she has been putting her expertise and experience to work at the Institut Arts et Métiers Chambéry—a benchmark in the environment and sustainable development in the industrial sector for 25 years now—where she now holds the position of director.