Isabelle PITAULT (researcher at CNRS) holds a Ph.D. in applied chemistry (1994) from the University of Poitiers (France) carried out at the Elf-CNRS laboratory. She did a post-doc at the LPT in Gent, Belgium, on catalytic processes for oil refining. Since 1996, she has been a researcher at CNRS, located at LGPC until 2015 and now at LAGEPP. She has specialised in catalytic processes and more particularly in kinetics, reactor design and transport phenomena in multi-phase catalytic reactors.