Roche Nicolas

Nicolas ROCHE is Professor in Chem. Eng. at Aix-Marseille University. He is currently Director of the ECCOREV Research Federation, Scientific advisor for the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education, member of the National Academy of Technologies of France and the High Council for Public Health, in charge of AMU’s interdisciplinary mission on the SDGs, Affiliate Professor at the UM6P (Morocco). He was the Academic Vice-President of the French Chem. Eng. Society from 2017 to 2025.

For 40 years, he has been working on designing, improving, and optimising wastewater treatment processes. Initially (1986-2000) to limit the impact of urban and industrial wastewater discharges into the environment. Since 2000  in the integration of wastewater treatment into a circular economy approach, the reuse of treated wastewater and the “smart use” of water in its use cycle particularly adapted to the problems of emerging countries regarding access to water and energy.