Dr. JC Gabriel is a former student at the "Ecole Normale Supérieure." He completed his PhD at University Paris Saclay (Formely Orsay university), France, which was followed by postdoctoral stays in Risoe, Denmark and UCSB, USA. He is currently a research director at the French Alternative Energy and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and co-director (as a visiting professor) of the NTU Singapore CEA Alliance for Research in Circular Economy (SCARCE). He joined CEA in 2007 where he was CEA/LETI institutes 'Beyond CMOS" program manager. He then became the deputy director of CEA's Nanoscience transverse program and co-principal investigator of the REE-CYCLE advanced ERC project (2013–2018), aiming to developing new rare earth extraction/recycling processes. He has published more than 75 papers in international peer reviewed journal and is the co-inventor on more than 50 patents and patent applications, many of them dealing with nanomaterials, sensing and recycling. Overall, his career is a mixed, academic and industrial (CNRS/Nanomix Inc/CEA/NTU), in nanoscience, nanotechnologies and recycling process development..