Rémy GOURDON graduated his master’s degree in biochemistry in 1983, and his PhD in environmental engg in 1987. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Biotech Lab of New Jersey Institute of Technology and joined INSA Lyon in 1990 where he became a full professor in 1999. He was successively appointed Director of the European undergraduate engineering department EURINSA from 1999 to 2003, and Coordinator of a master’s program on Industrial and Urban Environment form 2001 to 2005. He served as deputy director from 2003 to 2005 and director from 2005 to 2007 of the Laboratory of Environmental Analysis of Industrial Systems and Processes (LAEPSI). His laboratory merged in January 2007 with two other laboratories to create a new lab of which he was the deputy director until 2011 and the head of one of the 2 research groups until nov 2014. His major research interest is biophysicochemical phenomena occurring in solid waste, soils and sediments, and biological treatments of organic waste.