Dr Berengere Lebental - IFSTTAR/Ecole Polytechnique/CNRS
Dr Berengere LEBENTAL (female) graduated from Ecole Polytechnique's (Paris Saclay University, France) Engineering Program in 2006 and two of its MSc Programs in Nanotechnology and Physics in 2007. She achieved her PhD in Civil Engineering from Universite Paris-Est, France, in 2010 (ENPC-PariTech PhD award in 2011). Since 2010, she is research scientist at Laboratory of Physics of Interfaces and Thin Films (Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS) and French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Network (IFSTTAR).
A physicist specialized in nanoelectronics and sp2-carbon-based nanomaterials, her research work focuses on nano-enabled sensors for smart city applications, including design, fabrication, reliability analysis, IoT integration, field deployment and data exploitation.
She has coordinated several large scale national and EU research projects on sensors for smart cities, such as Sense-City or Proteus. Since 2017, she is cofounder of the startup Altaroad for connected roads and coordinator of the 2019-2022 EU-India LOTUS project.