Stéphane THIERS Age: 39 Current location: Sète, France Electronic mail: Web site: http://thiers.stephane.free.fr/en_index.htm

since 2013	Research and development engineer for IZUBA énergies   (Hérault)
2011-2012	Research work for ARMINES, at Albi Research center on Particulate Solids, Energy and the Environment (RAPSODEE) of the école des mines d'Albi-Carmaux  - AMMIS (6 months) : Project from the French Intelligent Building and PV Solar Research Programme (HABISOL ) Multicriteria analysis and inverse methods for energy simulation of buildings.
2005-2011	Research work for ARMINES, at Centre for Energy and Processes (CEP) (today called Centre for Energy efficiency of Systems (CES)) from the École des Mines de Paris - Study for VELUX A/S  (5 months) : Study for a simplified method for the energy performance assessment of windows - PERFECTION : European Project from the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) (24 months) : Performance indicators for health, comfort and safety on the indoor environment. More information... - SIMINTHEC : Project from the French Intelligent Building and PV Solar Research Programme (HABISOL ) (34 months) : Simulation and interoperable software tools for thermal and electrical management in buildings. - VALERIE : Project from the French Intelligent Building and PV Solar Research Programme (PREBAT ) (34 months) : Recovery of energy immediately usable by the building envelope. - MICRO 15 kWh : Project from the French Energy in Building Research Programme (PREBAT ) (30 months) : Micro-cogeneration and ventilation system adapted to dwellings with very low energy needs. - ADEME contract (23 months) : Modeling of earth-to-air heat echangers thermal behaviour. Software implementation in (Pleiades+COMFIE). Download the final report  - Study for Canada Clim  (6 months) : Modeling of earth-to-air heat echangers thermal behaviour.
2004-2005	12 months mission for SORÉGIES  (Poitiers, France) : Invitations to tender and profitability analysis on wind farm projects. Technico-economic analysis of combined cycle power plants projects.
2000-2002	National Service of Cooperation in Tunis (Tunisia) forming children and adults to computer science.
	INTERNSHIPS :
2000	4 months work on theoretical and experimental studies for recycling waste material from electronic industry by pyrolysis in solar oven  (IMP-CNRS, France) (today called PROMES )
1999	Three months work on Matlab/Simulink software for simulating fuel cell environment  (CEA Grenoble, France)

2016	PEUPORTIER B. coord. Énergétique des bâtiments et simulation thermique, Eyrolles. Overview
2013	PEUPORTIER B. coord. Livre blanc sur les recherches en énergétique des bâtiments, Presses des mines. Overview
2012	PEUPORTIER B., THIERS S. & GUIAVARCH A. Eco-design of buildings using thermal simulation and life cycle assessment. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol 39, pp. 73-78. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.08.041
	THIERS S. Edifici a energia positiva: un contributo alla transizione energetica? AGIEnergia, webjournal online. Article in italian
	THIERS, S. & PEUPORTIER, B. Energy and environmental assessment of two high energy performance residential buildings. Building and Environment, Vol 51, pp. 276-284. doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.11.018
2011	PEUPORTIER, B, THIERS, S. & GUIAVARCH, A. Eco-design of buildings using thermal simulation and life cycle assessment. 6th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES 2011), Dubrovnik, September 2011. Download
	MALISANI, P., FAVRE, B., THIERS, S. & PEUPORTIER, B., CHAPLAIS, F. & PETIT, N. Investigating the abilities of various buildings in handling power sheddings. IEEE Power Engineering and Automation Conference (PEAM 2011), Wuhan, September 2011, Vol 2, pp. 393-397. doi:10.1109/PEAM.2011.6134968 Download
	GAALOUL, S., DELINCHANT, B., WURTZ, F., THIERS, S. & PEUPORTIER, B. Strong Coupling of a Building Thermal Model With a Controlled Electrical Heater for an Hybrid Energy Simulation. ELECTRIMACS 2011 Conference, Cergy-Pontoise, June 2011. Download
2010	GAALOUL, S., DELINCHANT, B., WURTZ, F., THIERS, S. & PEUPORTIER, B. Couplage d'un modèle thermique issu de COMFIE avec un chauffage régulé électriquement pour une simulation temporelle hybride à pas variable. IBPSA-France Conference, Moret-sur-Loing, November 2010. Download
	THIERS, S., THELLIER, F., LABAUME, D., Aoun, B., LAVOYE, F. & PEUPORTIER, B. Conception d'un système de chauffage adapté aux logements à très faibles besoins énergétiques : microcogénération et ventilation double-flux. IBPSA-France Conference, Moret-sur-Loing, November 2010. Download
	THIERS, S., AOUN, B. & PEUPORTIER, B. Experimental characterization, modeling and simulation of a wood pellet micro-combined heat and power unit used as a heat source for a residential building. Energy and Buildings, Vol. 42 (6), pp. 896-903. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2009.12.011
2009	AOUN, B., THIERS, S. & PEUPORTIER, B. Experimental Characterization of a Micro-CHP unit based on a Stirling Engine, fueled by Wood Pellets. 14th International Stirling Engine Conference (ISEC 2009), Groningen, the Netherlands, November 2009. Download
	THIERS, S. & PEUPORTIER, B. Life cycle assessment of a positive energy house in France. Proceedings of CISBAT 2009 , 2-3 September 2009, Lausanne, Switzerland. Download the article | Download the presentation
	PEUPORTIER, B., THIERS, S. & AGGERI, F. Vers un habitat à énergie positive. Éclairages sur notre futur commun, revue du Réseau de Recherche sur le Développement Soutenable d'Île-de-France (R2DS ). No 2, February 2009. Download
	PEUPORTIER, B. & THIERS, S. Les maisons passives sont-elles confortables ? écologiques ? Revue CVC, No 857, January-February 2009.
2008	THIERS, S. & PEUPORTIER, B. Bilans énergétique et environnemental simulés d'un bâtiment passif équipé d'un échangeur air-sol, en Picardie. IBPSA-France Conference, Lyon, November 2008. Download
	THIERS, S. Energy and environmental assessments of energy-producing buildings. PhD Thesis. MINES ParisTech. 254 p., November 2008.
	THIERS, S. & PEUPORTIER, B. Thermal and environmental assessment of a passive building equipped with an earth-to-air heat exchanger in France. Solar Energy, Vol. 82 (9), 820-831. doi:10.1016/j.solener.2008.02.014
2007	THIERS, S. & PEUPORTIER, B. Modélisation thermique d'un échangeur air-sol pour le rafraîchissement de bâtiments. Thematic day SFT-IBPSA-France, Aix-les-Bains, april 2007. Download
	Poster : "Système de micro-cogénération et de ventilation adapté aux logements à très faibles besoins énergétiques (Micro 15 kWh)". PREBAT Conference , Aix-les-Bains, march 2007. Download
2006	PEUPORTIER, B. & THIERS, S. Des éco-techniques à l'éco-conception des bâtiments. Thematic day SFT-IBPSA-France, Chambéry, march 2006. Download

2013-	- Professional training to the building thermal simulation software Pleiades+Comfie  and novaEquer  (420h).
2011	- One week training to Pleiades+Comfie and Equer, to two civil engineers, Universidad de Magallanes, Santiago de Chile - Course and project Renewable energies (6h) to engineering students at École des Ponts ParisTech (Civil Engineering and construction section)
2010	- One week training at Pleiades+Comfie and Equer, to four phD and engineers, Politecnico di Torino (Italy).
2009-2011	- Lecture and practical sessions in the teaching unit ENF 111 Renewable energies in low-energy buildings at CNAM of Paris: Biomass energy and cogeneration (3h), Environmental and economical assessment of positive energy buildings (3h).
2007-2011	- Direction of a group of engineering students (M2 level) at École des Mines de Paris for a one-week course session Lifecycle of energy systems
2006-2011	- Courses to engineering students (M2 level) at EPF  Solar Energy (9 h from 2006 to 2009, 15 h in 2010 and 2011) Solar Energy (in english, 9 h in 2009) Fuel cells (9 h in 2006, 6 h from 2007 to 2009) Eco-design of buildings (in english, 18 h in 2009)
2008-2010	- Direction (45h) of a group of 5 engineering students (M1/M2 level) from EPF  for the EcoFriendly Project
2009	- Initiation to building dynamic simulation tools (Izuba softwares: Alcyone, Pleiades+COMFIE, Equer) (4h) to engineering students (M2 level) at INSA of Rennes (speciality Civil and Urban Engineering)
2007	- Direction of a group of engineering students (L3 level) at École des Mines de Paris for a General Integration Module (MIG) about "factor 4 buildings" - Solar energy (4h) to students from CESI of Bagneux

2005-2008	PhD in Energy Studies with honors from MINES ParisTech under supervision of Dr. Bruno Peuportier . Title : Energy and environmental assessments of energy-producing buildings
2003-2004	"Mastère spécialisé" in Energy Management and Engineering  from the École des Mines de Paris
1997-2000	Engineer diploma from Grenoble National Engineering School for Physics (ENSPG, nowadays called PHELMA) a school from Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP) Option : Energetic and Nuclear Engineering
1995	Baccalauréat (French secondary school diploma) with Honors. Majors in Maths and Physics

• LANGUAGES AND COMPUTER
  
   French: Native language
   English: Excellent (TOEIC 2004: 910 pts, General professional proficiency)
   Spanish: Good speaking and reading hability
   Dialectal arabic (Tunisia) : Basic knowledge
   German: Basic knowledge
  
  Programming languages: Delphi, HTML, C, Visual Basic
  Softwares: Pleiades+COMFIE , Alcyone , novaEQUER , Matlab/Simulink, EnergyPlus, TortoiseSVN, Trac, LibreOffice, Word 2010 and older, Excel 2010 and older

• PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL SKILLS
  
  Thermals, Building thermals, Renewable energies
  Life cycle assessment, Building eco-design, Modeling, Software development
  Data analysis, Kriging method, Optimization, Numerical methods, Meta-heuristics algorithms, Technico-economic analysis
  New energy market knowledge, Energy economics, Wind analysis,
  Meeting driving, Teaching, Project management, Mediation

• Activities in various associations (Transition initiative, and formerly, PhD students and researchers association, Community Supported Agriculture, etc.)
• Music (Pink Floyd, guitar, singing), Juggling, Astronomy, etc.
• Webmastering

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