Caroline Zaoui, PhD

CTO & Co-founder at Novobiom
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Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium, BE
Languages
  • French Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English Full professional proficiency
  • German Professional working proficiency
  • Dutch Elementary proficiency
  • Italian Elementary proficiency

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(Pierre) Jean Valayer

Caroline is a most insightful researcher, prompt at synthesizing the essence of a research issue, she brings clarity to her co-workers, a rare quality. Her commitment to sustainability gives her a strong drive, while keeping smiling. Prompt at spotting issues, in a timely fashion

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Credentials

  • Clinical Research Associate Certification (CRA)
    CROPHA
    Oct, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • GCP (Good Clinical Practices) Certification
    CROPHA
    Oct, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Gene Technology, Biosafety and Biosecurity
    MHH - Hannover Medical School, Germany

Experience

  • Novobiom
    • Belgium
    • Biotechnology Research
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • CTO & Co-founder
      • Nov 2014 - Present

      NOVOBIOM provides innovative solutions for the ecological clean-up of heavily polluted natural resources. Relying on an innovative biotechnology platform and rupturing from the usual industrial practices, we enlarge the scope of existing techniques with a novel biological solution for the treatment of contaminated waste. Currently focusing on tackling soil contamination, we introduce within the industry an efficient and competitive new way to managing and rehabilitating heavily contaminated industrial waste. www.novobiom.com

  • Forest Commons
    • President
      • Dec 2020 - Present

      Forest Commons (formerly called Arbres Sauveurs) aims to develop innovative reforestation, agroforestry and cross-disciplinary tree-centred projects. Our team of bioinspiration professionals focuses primarily on multifunctional trees which comprehensively benefit the natural environment, local populations and the mitigation of climate change, and which respond to the nuanced needs of the regions in which and communities with whom we work, namely in Haiti, Mexico, India and France. Our small-scale carbon compensation programme enables meaningful offset activities, which guarantee longterm sequestration as well as a myriad of associated benefits to local stakeholders and regional biodiversity.

  • Biomimicry Belgium
    • Civic and Social Organizations
    • Administrator at Biomimicry Belgium asbl
      • Nov 2016 - Present

      Biomimicry Belgium is a network of experienced biomimicry practitioners in Belgium. We are a not-for-profit entrepreneurial network; we promote biomimicry through conferences and magazines and we apply biomimicry in various projects and start-ups. We also connect; come meet us at our regular Biomimicry Café’s and workshops to meet the crowd.http://www.biomimicrybe.org/home/hey@biomimicrybe.org Biomimicry Belgium is a network of experienced biomimicry practitioners in Belgium. We are a not-for-profit entrepreneurial network; we promote biomimicry through conferences and magazines and we apply biomimicry in various projects and start-ups. We also connect; come meet us at our regular Biomimicry Café’s and workshops to meet the crowd.http://www.biomimicrybe.org/home/hey@biomimicrybe.org

  • Self-employed
    • Bio-Inspiration Speaker
      • Oct 2012 - Present

      Providing inspirational talks at universities and international conferences, as well as technical guidance and management in the fields of biotechnologies and bio-inspiration. Non-exhaustive list of most recent interventions:- Invited speaker at the "EU4PhD PhD without borders" conference, Cité Internationale, Paris (2017)- Invited speaker at the MBA Healthcare Management - IAE Paris, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2017)- Invited speaker at the Master in Sustainability Science and Policy, Maastricht University (2016)Contact me for further inquiries.

  • ALMADIUS
    • Belgium
    • Civil Engineering
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Feasibility of industrial soil mycoremediation - Lead researcher
      • Dec 2014 - Nov 2016

      The project's objective was to reach a proof of concept through various pilot scales.My activities within the project were:- Fungal strains screening and selection: enzymatic profiles and growth optimization - Fungal biomass production- Design of experiment and testing of fungal strain grown on polluted industrial soil- Design and monitoring of mycoremediation pilots« Démonstration de la faisabilité de la mycoremédiation des pollutions complexes », a First-Entreprise SPW-DGO6 funded project (Wallonia, Belgium) and hosted at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL, Laboratoire de Génie Biologique).

  • Greenloop
    • Belgium
    • Environmental Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • R&D project leader
      • Apr 2009 - Sep 2012

      As Greenloop's R&D project leader:- WP leader of the FP7 CO2SolStock European R&D project: I co-designed with academic partners innovative bio-assisted solutions to sequester carbon dioxide, co-wrote the project's final report and co-authored two patent applications in that field. Organization of the project's final international conference and scientific training. See video.- Sustainability consultant: I participated in various projects related to sustainable food systems, sustainable packaging and industrial innovation through biomimicry.- Scientific coach at Ecole Centrale Paris- Biomimicry lecturer at conferences and events

  • Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
    • Germany
    • Research Services
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Doctoral research
      • Oct 2004 - Feb 2009

      PhD in Infection Biology as a Marie Curie fellow, from the Hannover Medical School (Germany), magna cum laudePhD thesis: Analysis of the molecular mechanism underlying the Pseudomonas quinolone signal transduction in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: characterization of a hybrid two-component system sensor kinase PhD in Infection Biology as a Marie Curie fellow, from the Hannover Medical School (Germany), magna cum laudePhD thesis: Analysis of the molecular mechanism underlying the Pseudomonas quinolone signal transduction in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: characterization of a hybrid two-component system sensor kinase

Education

  • Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Infection Biology - Microbiology
    2004 - 2008
  • Université René Descartes (Paris V)
    Master's degree, Microbiology: "écologie microbienne, pathogénie des microorganismes, agents anti-infectieux"
    2003 - 2004
  • Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
    Maîtrise, Biochemistry
    2002 - 2003
  • Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
    Licence, Biochemistry
    2001 - 2002
  • Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
    Diplôme d'études universitaires générales (DEUG), Sciences de la matière, parcours biochimie (SMb)
    2000 - 2001

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