François Badin graduated from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, he holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering and a national accreditation to supervise research from Chambéry University. He worked at INRETS (Bron, France) from 1985 to 2007 as researcher, then senior scientist and manager of the Hybrid Vehicles team at the Transport and Environment laboratory. He joined IFP Energies nouvelles in 2008; as expert director, he is responsible for cross-functional scientific coordination activities in the field of hybrid drive vehicles.