Corinne CABASSUD, PhD, is a Professor of Chemical and Environmental Eng. at INSA Toulouse - France. She received a master's degree in Chemical eng. in 1983 at ENSIC, Nancy–France, and a PhD in 1986 at Toulouse INP. She began her career as a Research Team Leader in the Membrane Laboratory of Lyonnaise des Eaux in Toulouse where she contributed to the development of ultrafiltration processes for drinking water production that are now commercialised worldwide. In 1993, she joined INSA as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 2000. She was Head of the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Dpt of INSA from 2003 to 2009. She is currently leading research activities on membrane processes for desalination at Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, in the Department of Sustainable Processes. Her main research topics were membrane processes for water production, wastewater treatment and reuse, and desalination, and currently membrane distillation for desalination and treatment of brines, focused on wetting, coupling MD and solar heating, and systems for remote places. She has published about 400 papers and communications and chaired 32 PhD theses. She participated in EU projects (EUROMBRA, MEDINA, EXTRASEA ). She co-chaired the scientific committee of ICOM 2002 and chaired ”Engineering with membranes” in 2013, the EDS Conference “Membranes in Drinking Water Production and Waste Water Treatment » in 2008, and the IWA-Membrane Technology Conference in 2019.