Maxime Pontié was born on March 14th in 1968, Montauban, France. He is full professor and works at the University of Angers since 2004. He received a PhD degree under professors Lemordant and Rumeau in 1996 from the University Francois Rabelais in Tours, France. After a postdoctoral research study with professor R.W. Bowen, Swansea University of Wales, UK, with a research topic dedicated to mass transfer mechanism in nanofiltration, he obtained a lecturer position in Chimie Paris Tech from 1997 to 2004. He obtained the award of best paper in J. Memb. Science in 2000 from the European Membrane Society. His first research interest was dedicated to water desalination membrane processes with a way to intensify the processes in a sustainable development approach. Since 2019, he has been the manager of a young research team entitled Groupe of Analysis and Processes (GA&P). He has over 100 publications that have been cited over 100 times, and his publication H-index is 54. He has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed Journals. He was a board member of the European Desalination Society (EDS) during the period 2012 to 2017. Since 2021 he was a board member of the French Chemical Society dedicated to energy activities/animations and teaching. Its recent research are dedicated to fungal microbial fuel cell development for organic micropollutants bioremediation associated with electrochemical sensors box development (iMERMAID.eu).