Biographies of the members of CDEFI's Executive Board


Emmanuel Duflos
President of CDEFI and Dean of the EPF Engineering School
Emmanuel Duflos is a University Professor and Dean of the EPF Engineering School since April 2023. He was elected President of CDEFI in June 2023, after having been Vice-President for six years. He graduated in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from ISEN in 1991 and holds a Postgraduate Diploma (DEA) in Signal Processing and Automatic Control, a PhD in Engineering Sciences and an authorisation to supervise research (HDR). Emmanuel Duflos started his career as a techar-researcher at ISEN and then Centrale Lille for seven years, before being appointed Deputy Director of the school, and later Director of Research. He eventually headed Centrale Lille until 2020. Between 2020 and March 2023, he was Dean of a Centrale Lille Institut, a new institution which gathered four Engineering Schools: Centrale Lille, the ENSCL, ITEEM and the IG2I. 

 
Laure Morel
1st Vice-President of CDEFI and Dean of the ENSGSI
 
Laure Morel is a Professor in Industrial Engineering at the University of Lorraine and is Dean of the ENSGSI since February 2019. She has been Vice-President of CDEFI’s Research and Innovation Commission for two years before being elected Vice-President of the Conference in June 2023. She holds a PhD in Industrial Systems Engineering and an authorisation to supervise research (HDR). In 2009, she was appointed Director of the University of Lorraine ERPI Laboratory (a research team on Innovative Processes), a position she held until 2019. Laure Morel has contributed to numerous publications and books as part of her research into the modelling and multi-criteria evaluation of innovation processes and associated engineering. 


Conférence des grandes écoles de Paca : Carole Deumié, directrice de... Carole Deumié
2nd Vice-President of CDEFI and Dean of Centrale Méditerranée

Carole Deumié has been Head of Centrale Méditerranée since November 2019. She is vice-president of CDEFI from June 2025, after chairing the Ecological and Societal Transition Commission between 2023 and 2025. An engineering graduate of Centrale Marseille (today Centrale Méditerranée), she holds an agrégation in Physical sciences and a PhD in Optics, electromagnetism and images. She began teaching at Centrale Marseille in 1998, before becoming Director of First and Second Year Studies in 2007, then Director of Training, and finally Dean. Since 2012, she has also been in charge of the DIMABiO team, which she set up at the Institut Fresnel in Marseille. A member of the CTI between 2008 and 2016, Carole Deumié was also an expert for the Hcérès.


Cécile Delolme
3rd Vice-President of CDEFI and Dean of the ENTPE

Cécile Delolme is Chief Engineer and Dean of the ENTPE since December 2020. She graduated as an Engineer from the ENTPE in 1989, and holds a PhD in Waste Management and Treatment and an authorisation to supervise research (HDR) in Earth Sciences. She was a researcher and lecturer in Biogeochemistry of Urban Interfaces at the ENTPE until 2015. Between 2004 and 2014, she directed the Envirhônalp scientific interest group, before becoming Director of the "City environment and its engineering" cluster of the Université Paris-Est ComUE (group of universities). In 2017, she was appointed Vice-president in charge of the I-Site FUTURE initiative of excellence on "The cities of tomorrow". She then held the position of Deputy Vice-President "Transformative projects and societal missions" with the objective of steering the FUTURE initiative of excellence at the University Gustave Eiffel.


Dominique Baillargeat
4th Vice-President of CDEFI and Dean of 3iL Ingénieur

Dominique Baillargeat, Dean of 3iL Ingénieurs since February 2018, is Managing Director of the 3iL Group since January 2020. Elected Vice-President of CDEFI in June 2023, she was previously Vice-President of CDEFI's Education and Society Commission. She held a PhD in Electronics and began her career in 1994 as a Physics teacher at the ESIEE Amiens Engineering School, before joining 3iL ingénieurs in 1998. There, she was first manager of the integrated preparatory cycle and of the school’s research activities, then appointed Director of External Relations and eventually Director of the IT Centre. As the School's Dean, she was responsible for sponsoring the graduating classes by various companies, and for 3IL obtaining the Établissement d'enseignement supérieur privé d'intérêt général (EESPIG) state label and joining the Private Higher Education Institution of General Interest (UGEI).