Rare Earths ESCo: towards responsible use of rare earths throughout their life cycle: what are the future prospects in terms of sobriety, recycling and production methods?

Scientific leads

• Pascale RICARD is a lawyer specialising in international, maritime and environmental law, and a research fellow at the CNRS at the laboratory Droits international, comparé et européen – DICE (Aix-Marseille Université – CNRS).
• Clément LEVARD is a physical chemist and specialist in environmental geoscience, and a research director at the CNRS at the Centre de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement – CEREGE (Aix-Marseille Université – CNRS – INRAE – IRD).
• Romain GARCIER is a geographer, a specialist in geographical approaches to critical materials and rare earths, and a senior lecturer at the ENS de Lyon, affiliated with the laboratory Environnement Ville Société – EVS (CNRS – ENTPE – ENS de Lyon – ENSA Lyon – Université Jean Monnet – Université Lumière Lyon 2 – Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin).

Principal experts

• Kevin BERNOT is a chemist, professor at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) in Rennes at the Institut des sciences chimiques de Rennes – ISCR (CNRS – ENSC Rennes – Université de Rennes).
• Bénédicte CENKI is a geologist and professor at the Université de Montpellier at the laboratory Géosciences Montpellier (CNRS – Université de Montpellier).
• Marie FORGET is a geographer and senior lecturer at the Université Savoie Mont Blanc at the laboratory Environnement, Dynamique et Territoires de la Montagne – Edytem (CNRS – Université de Savoie Mont Blanc).
• Olga FUENTES is a specialist in life cycle analysis with a background in electronic engineering, a junior researcher at the Université de Bordeaux at the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires – ISM (Bordeaux INP – CNRS – Université de Bordeaux), working in partnership with Guido Sonnemann.
• Laure GIAMBERINI is an ecotoxicologist, professor of exceptional rank at the Université de Lorraine and director of the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire des environnements continentaux – LIEC (CNRS – Université de Lorraine).
• Émilie JANOTS is a geologist and senior lecturer at the Université Grenoble-Alpes at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre – ISTerre (CNRS – IRD – Université Grenoble Alpes – Université Savoie Montblanc).
• Brice LAURENT is a sociologist and researcher at Mines Paris-PSL at the Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation-I3 (CNRS – École Polytechnique – Mines Paris-PSL – Télécom Paris). He is also director of the Direction Sciences Sociales, Économie et Société de l’Anses.
• Gilles LHUILIER is a lawyer, professor of private law at the ENS de Rennes, and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
• Frédéric MAZALEYRAT is a physicist and professor at the ENS Paris-Saclay in the laboratory – Systèmes et applications des technologies de l'information et de l'énergie – Satie (CNAM – CNRS – CY Cergy Paris Université – ENS Paris-Saclay – Université Paris-Saclay).
• Stéphane PELLET-ROSTAING is a chemist and CNRS research director at the Institut de chimie séparative de Marcoule-ICSM (CEA – CNRS – ENSC Montpellier – Université de Montpellier).
• Guido SONNEMANN is a chemist and specialist in life cycle analysis, and a professor at the Université de Bordeaux at the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires – ISM (Bordeaux INP – CNRS – Université de Bordeaux).
• Eric VAN HULLEBUSCH is a biogeochemist and professor at the Institut de physique du globe de Paris – IPGP/IPGP-UMR (CNRS – IPGP-Université Paris Cité).
• Fanny VERRAX is a philosopher and associate professor of ecological transition and social entrepreneurship at EmLyon Business School.
• Alexandre VIOLLE is a sociologist and junior researcher at Mines Paris-PSL at the Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation – I3 (CNRS – Ecole Polytechnique – Mines Paris-PSL – Télécom Paris), working in partnership with Brice Laurent.

Contributing experts 

• Yacine AMARA is a physicist and a lecturer at the Université de Le Havre Normandy within the Groupe de Recherche en Électrotechnique et Automatique du Havre – GREAH (Université Le Havre Normandie).
• Valentin BAUDOUIN is a lawyer and researcher at the Centre européen de recherche sur le risque, le droit des accidents collectifs et des catastrophes – CERDACC (Université de Haute-Alsace).
• Laurent CALVEZ is a chemist and professor at the Université de Rennes within the Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes – ISCR (CNRS – ENSC Rennes – Université de Rennes – INSA Rennes).
• Laurent CASSAYRE is a chemist and research director at the Laboratoire de Génie Chimique – LGC (CNRS – Toulouse INP – Université de Toulouse).
• Florian JAROSCHIK is a chemist and researcher at the Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier –  ICGM (CNRS – ENSC Montpellier – Université de Montpellier).
• Elsa LAFAYE DE MICHEAUX is an economist and professor at the Université de Rennes 2 in the Centre Asie du Sud-Est – CASE (CNRS – EHESS – INALCO).
• Alexandra LANGLAIS is a lawyer and researcher at the Institut de l'Ouest : Droit et Europe – IODE (CNRS – Université Rennes).
• Florian LEBLANC is an economist and research engineer at the International Centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement – CIRED (AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, CIRAD, CNRS, EHESS, ENPC, Institut Polytechnique de Paris).
• Louis-Marie MALBEC is an engineer and economist, and a researcher at IFP Energies nouvelles – IFPEN.
• Alexander STINGL is a sociologist and researcher at the School of Political Science & Sociology (University of Galway). 
• Luca TENREIRA is a lawyer and a researcher at the European University Institute. 
• Raphaël TRIPIER is a chemist and professor at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale in the laboratory Chimie, Électrochimie Moléculaires et Chimie Analytique – CEMCA (CNRS – Université Bretagne Occidentale EPE, Brest).
• Francesco RICCI is an economist and professor at the Université de Montpellier in the Centre d'Economie de l'Environnement de Montpellier – CEE-M (CNRS – INRAE – Institut Agro de Montpellier – Université de Montpellier).