SMART 2009 Conference Participants 
Gaëll Mainguy
Director of Scientific Publications
Institut Veolia Environnement
Gaëll Mainguy is a former pupil of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and a Doctor in Molecular biology (Pierre and Marie Curie University). He successively works for the CNRS (Paris), the Center for Biomedical Genetics (Utrecht, The Netherlands) and the INSERM (Paris). In 2004, he is elected President of the World Academy of Young Scientists (WAYS). This international organization founded by UNESCO has the task of developing interactions between young scientists across the world, irrespective of their discipline, and of creating areas for interactions between science and society. Gaëll Mainguy joins the Institute in 2006 and is in charge of developing its scientific editorial policy.