Jerome Perrin

R&D Director

Renault

Jérôme Perrin is engineer from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), and doctor in physics from the University Paris VII – Denis Diderot. He started a research career in CNRS (French Scientific National Research Center, www.cnrs.fr) from 1981 to 1996, in the fields of plasma physics and chemistry, plasma-materials interactions and film deposition or etching, and their applications to the fabrication of photovoltaic solar cells, opto-electronics and flat panel displays.

In 1997 he joined the Balzers & Leybold group, which eventually became Oerlikon (www.oerlikon.com), as director for the development of plasma-assisted deposition and etching industrial equipment for flat panel display and solar panel manufacturing.

In 2001 he was hired by the industrial gas company Air Liquide (www.airliquide.com) as R&D program director for gas analysis, gas-surface chemistry, and new energy technologies such as solar photovoltaics, and hydrogen and fuel cells. During this period he has chaired the French national R&D program PAN-H on hydrogen and fuel cells of the ANR (National Research Agency, www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr).

In February 2007 he joined Renault as Director of Advanced Projects on CO2 and Environment within the Department of Research, Advanced Engineering and Materials (DREAM). As such he is in charge of advanced engineering for future electric vehicles. He is also in charge of the relationship with Nissan on these subjects.  Since 2009 he is chairing the steering committee of the French national R&D program on ground transport vehicles of the ANR.