Amadéite SAS

Amadéite conducts R&D activities in the fields of animal, plant and human care with the aim of proposing natural alternatives in agriculture to improve feed and food security. The group is present internationally with 20 foreign establishments and sales in >70 countries. Algal fractions extracted by biorefinery processes are key ingredients for all markets. In 2013 a new biorefinery process line and laboratory and pilot facilities were inaugurated.

These facilities will be used for evaluating the effect of biomass stabilisation practices developed in WP3 and for developing biorefinery/fractionation processes of WP4.

Damien Berdeaux

Damien Berdeaux is an engineer and the Industrial Development Manager of for Olmix group with an in-depth hands on experience of algal processing.

Pi Nyvall Collen

Pi Nyvall Collen was hired as R&D manager for the Olmix group in October 2012. During her academic career, she studied different aspects of cell wall polysaccharides from brown, red and green algae, the enzymes involved in their degradation or modification and applications of the degradation products. Her experience includes genomics, biochemistry, enzymology and physiology. She has a PhD in Plant Physiology on of starch metabolism in red algae (Stockholm University, Sweden) and has published 25 peer reviewed papers and 4 patents.

Daniele Marzin

Daniele Marzin arrived as group Marketing and Innovation Director in May 2015 with a solid knowledge in marketing and product development for animal applications.

Aurélie Garel

Aurélie Garel is the corporate communication manager of Olmix Group. She has been in charge of the communication for the group since 2008. Her skills and competencies are in the field of communication (both strategy and operational). Her background is in marketing & communications and she has extensive experience in supporting innovative projects. For GENIALG, she contributes to the dissemination and exploitation plan and to public outreach activities, including the biorefinary manual.

Maxime Cavarec

Maxime Cavarec is a Technological Hall Executive. A graduate in bio-process, maxime has been part of Olmix group R&D team since 2014. His work focuses on algal processing thanks to his background in process engineering. He has three years of experience working on biomass and separation process specifically on the extraction, separation and purification of valuable compound from biomass and other materials, using a wide variety of technologies such: Hydrolysis, Press, Ultra-Filtration, Concentration, Drying. For GENIALG, he is involved in the life cycle assessment of the seaweed biorefinery.

Gaëlle Penault

Gaëlle Penault joined Amadéite R&D team in May 2017 as innovation project manager. She is the project contact point for AMADEITE collaborative projects and she also deals with intellectual property concerns for Olmix group. She has seven years experience in European and local projects within the marine sector including marine biological resources projects. Her academic background is in European Affairs and political sciences.

Vanny Salomon

Vanny Salomon is a natural polymer chemist who has been in the Amadeite R&D team since 2017. Her skills and competencies are in the field of extraction & characterisation of natural compounds. She is involved in several R&D projects for Amadeite focusing on seaweed extraction and active compounds purification. Her background is marine biotechnology and chemistry of natural products (Masters degree).

Laura Miel

Laura Miel is an R&D project manager. After a master degree in health biology, Laura specialised in livestock production. She joined the R&D department of Olmix group in 2015 where she works on new product development for the Animal Care range. She is also involved in several collaborative projects focusing on biological activities of seaweed extracts and their impact on animal health.

Danièle Marzin

Danièle Marzin has been Marketing and Innovation Director for OLMIX group since May 2015. Danièle has a solid knowledge in marketing and product development for animal applications.

Role in GENIALG

Amadéite will provide the project with its experience of macroalgal processing and biorefinery at an industrial scale. Amadéite has a role in WP3 (Demonstration of large-scale seaweed farming), WP4 (Seaweed biorefinery prototype design and implementation), WP5 (Market validation and life-cycle analysis), WP7 (Dissemination, Stakeholder Engagement, Knowledge Transfer, Outreach Capacity Building), and WP8 (Project management).