Isabelle Moretti

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Isabelle Moretti is a scientist with a master in mathematics and a Ph.D. in earth science from Univ Paris XI (Orsay). She was post doc in Cornell Uni and MIT and then began her career in 1987 at the French Petroleum Institute (IFP, now IFPen). She held various project management positions working in France and abroad (Bolivia, Colombia, Egypt, Italia, Greece). She worked in fundamental research but also developed professional software, mainly in structural geology. She intersperses her research and appraisal activities for industry (TOTAL, CEPSA, YPFB) with work for governmental entities (IRD, CNRS, ANR, CEE, Ancre). She is author of more than 160 scientific papers, directed a thirty of PhD’s and is giving courses in various universities in France as abroad. In 2012, Isabelle Moretti moved to ENGIE and quickly became its corporate scientific director (CSO). It that position, she selected the technologies of tomorrow in renewable energies and other emerging markets and lead the research programs of the company in new source of energy and enabling technologies. She has been also president of the GERG (European Gas Research organization), member of the board of Ineris, BRGM and the SGF and she is expert in various commissions. She has been elected at the French Technology Academy in 2018 and were also president of the industrial chairs at ANR (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche) up to 2022. Isabelle Moretti is now mainly back to the academic world and lead a team dedicated to natural H2 at the Pau university (UPPA) where she is working on different case studies such as Brazil, Australia, Namibia, Afar area, Colombia, Kosovo, Iceland and France but also in the H2 generating source rock characterization. With her team of about 10 young researchers she published more than 40 papers about exploration of natural H2 including case study, new data, new tools but also theorical works on the H2 generation kinetic, many of them are done with energy companies. She also sits on the board of EartH2, which promotes the E&P of natural H2 and subsurface H2 storage in Europe, and is one of the IEA's experts on natural hydrogen.