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Maud Rio is an Associate Professor, HDR, at Grenoble Alps University<\/a> G-SCOP Laboratory, part of the Product Process Design, called CoSys, Team. Maud\u2019s research includes developing models and designing methods based on the approach of integrated design to boost environmental and sustainability performance of products and processes in line with emerging technologies leading to new forms of consumption and production. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently joining the European project EECONE <\/a>\u00ab\u00a0European Ecosystem for Green Electronic\u00a0\u00bb in work packages 3 (guidelines on modularity & ecodesign), 4 (case studies) and 5 (transfers & education)-July 2023-2026, she is joining forces of 49 partners from 16 European countries covering different sectors of activity, to propose practical ways of improving sustainable circularity and ecodesign systems in power electronic products, and closely co-supervising the PhD of Lucas Pinto. Also involved in the Cross Disciplinary Project IDEX PowerAlps<\/a> (2022-2026) in the work package 1<\/a>, supporting sustainability reflexivity with a transformative method for Power Electronic researchers, co-supervising the PhD of Yuechen Li. The third main research project she contributes to is the ANR VIVAE <\/a>(2021-2025), currently leading the work package 3 involving the PhD of Li Fang on an integrated ecodesign method in Power Electronic design process development. Maud currently supervises five PhDs in collaboration with three research teams: the G2Elab (Grenoble), I2M (Chambery) and the LIG (Grenoble), and many partners, including the PhD of Lucas Riondet on the ecodesign of technology upscaling (financed by the InterCarnot Energie du Futur<\/a> with Arts et M\u00e9tiers, Chamb\u00e9ry) and the PhD of Valentin Girard about supporting digital-electronics resilient usage in sustainable and post-grown societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With two researchers and four researcher communities Maud co-created the Technical Comity <\/em>Sustainability<\/a> in May 2023, aiming to engage interdisciplinary and quality design research in terms of processes, results and methodological supports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She just finished in September 2022 a full-sabbatical research year to support the integration of an authentic ecological thinking into engineering-related field research (design of products and systems and sustainable circular economy), in industries, and at the university by developing a reflexive method. She has been visiting, learning and questioning ongoing researches, and initiating some research collaborations with researchers from the Stockholm Resilience Center<\/a> in Sweden, the Technical University<\/a> of Denmark, and from Lausanne University<\/a> in Switzerland. Back in France, current collaborations include the PowerAlps Institute cross-disciplinary research project aiming to federate Power Electronics in Grenoble (2022-2026), the VIVAE <\/a>project (AAPG2021 – ANR PRCE – Industry of the Future)-InnoVatIve life cycles to keep the VAlue of power Electronics<\/strong>, in collaboration with the G2ELab<\/a> in Grenoble, the I2M <\/a>in Bordeaux, Eaton<\/a> and Oscaro Power<\/a>. The project subscribes to the objective: \u201cto promote a vision and a systemic organization of the industry, for a development process integrating the life-cycle dimensions of the products and value networks\u201d, in relation to the breaking axis \u00ab\u00a0green and socially responsible factory\u00a0\u00bb. In particular, Maud’s team is leading the Integrated design process toward circular PE systems implementation work package. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was the chief investigator of the Sustainable Design by Local Initiatives<\/strong> Project (EcoSD<\/a> network \u2013 Soutenabilit\u00e9 de la conception par les initiatives locales) and UGA referent for INNOMAT<\/a> and CARED <\/a>European Research Project on EIT Raw Materials<\/a>. She collaborated to the ET-LIOS Project of Open Technological Courses for undergraduated Students<\/a> related to the Sustainable and Responsible teaching (AAP ANR 2020). The EcoCloud<\/a> platform gathers the teaching materials, research supports, services on sustainability (open source, Creative Common), supported by this community on YesWiki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past projects includes the PlayRoom Project on Life Cycle Assessments representations Online Tool<\/a> for product designers; scientific coordinator in supporting lifecycle models and impact indicators for glyco-based products, in the Cross-Disciplinary-Project Glyco@Alps<\/a> (since 2017)\/WP5 with glyco-economics; the Int\u00e9rop\u00e8C project aiming to support dynamic and flexible information exchanges between multi-disciplinary activities to practice ecodesign, the co-organisation of international Conference & Thematic Workshop of EcoSD network on Usage integration during design. Maud has co-authored a number of research paper and reports linked with developing methods and tools to integrate ecodesign practices in the productions systems. Increase designers proactivity during the design process of products and services is a key motivation in her research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a national level Maud is piloting since Septembre 2022 the working group on sustainability issues<\/a> on research in engineering, design and control of socio-technical systems of the Research Group GDR-MACS<\/a> (CNRS) initiated in 2020 by Prof. Nad\u00e8ge Troussier. Ongoing actions<\/a> include confronting visions on sustainability issues in research and in academia, with the SAGIP<\/a>, GIS S.Mart<\/a> and the EEA Club<\/a>. This group lead to the creation of the Sustainability Technical Comity<\/a>, launched in May 2023 with Aur\u00e9lie Charles and Roberta Da Costa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maud is also a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering in IUT\u2019s Mechanical and Manufacturing Technological School of Grenoble (GMP)<\/a>. She is currently the course coordinator for a range of engineering topics related to sustainability, ecodesign methods (including life cycle assessment (LCA)) and sustainable circularity. In addition, she supervises undergraduate, postgraduate, and master students in related fields, as well as co-supervises five PhD students in integrated design. She is also lecturing in other engineering schools (Grenoble-INP, Arts et M\u00e9tiers ParisTech, Strasbourg), and at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (Phitem).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD students Maud has co-supervized are: Mauricio Dwek (Integration of Material Circularity in Product Design, defended in dec. 2017), Hamzeh Moussa (Generate, Follow, Capitalise K transformation occurring between product designers and environmental experts activity, ended in 2018), Boubakr Rahmani (Circular Economy in Power Electronics, defended in dec. 2022), and Lucas Riondet (Ecodesign in Emerging Technology: Scaling-up Considerations in Life Cycle Assessment, defended in July 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other responsibilities include international relationship coordinator for undergraduate students at the IUT GMP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to this role, Maud has worked two years as a research fellow at RMIT University\u2019s Centre for Design and Society in Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has completed her PhD in 2012<\/a> after being graduated in mechanical design engineering and sustainable development in 2009 from the UTT (France). Maud was habilited to supervise research in February 11th 2025 (Grenoble, France).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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