Senior Researcher, Mines ParisTech

An engineer by training, with a diploma from EPF Graduate School of Engineering, Isabelle Blanc also holds a Master in Science from University of Wisconsin and a PhD from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (now Mines ParisTech).
She started her career as an expert in Life-Cycle Assessment at Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques, before being hired by consulting firm BIO Intelligence Service.
She later worked as a senior researcher, first at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), then at University of Lausanne (Switzerland).
Since 2006, she has been a research team manager at Centre Observation, Impacts, Energie (Mines ParisTech). Her main specialty is environmental assessment of renewable energy industries.

Articles from this author

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  Industry / 2015-11-25

  How to calculate the environmental impact of renewable energy

  Isabelle Blanc / Senior Researcher, Mines ParisTech

  The development of renewable energy since the early 2000s should continue and intensify in the coming years, changing significantly the electricity mix of the future while reducing the associated environmental impacts. It is therefore cruc…