RIO Maud

Maîtresse de Conférences, Associate Professor HDR (11/02/2025)
46 Avenue Félix Viallet 38031 GRENOBLE Cedex
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04 76 57 48 35
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  • Maud is lecturing in Mechanical Engineering in IUT’s Mechanical and Manufacturing Technological School of Grenoble (GMP). She is currently the course coordinator for a range of engineering topics related to sustainability, eco-design and life cycle assessment (LCA). In addition, she supervises undergraduate, postgraduate, and master students in related fields, as well as co-supervises PhD students in integrated design for sustainability in mechanical, electronic engineering and IT fields. Other responsibilities include international relationship coordinator for undergraduate students at the IUT GMP, and last year internship coordinator and supervisor.

  • Topics: Design for Sustainability, Ecodesign, including a set of various methods adapted for different purpose (socio-technical and local-planetary scales), for different users (designers or researchers in engineering, students, grassroots initatives, industries, etc.); Planetary Boundaries & Life cycle impacts assessment; Mechanical Engineering, Technology & Practice, Project Management, Industrial Ecology

Main teaching responsibilities

  • Since 2023: in charge of last year internship management for IUT 1 GMP students (BUT 3) in mechanical Eng.
  • Since 2022: in charge of the “Sustainable Design and Manufacturing” program courses coordination at the department of Mechanical Eng. GMP-IUT1/UGA: three-year program (lectures, Lab, contain, recruitment); intervention in the Chemistry and Physic Measurement departments
  • since 2023: in charge of the 3rd year internship of the Mechanical and Manuf. Engineering Department of IUT1 Grenoble, about 50 interns/year (administration guiding and support, industrial follow-up, student supervision, evaluations & grading, defense week management, etc.)
  • Since 2020: Sustainable Responsibility Comity member representing the department of Mechanical Eng. GMP-IUT1/UGA (since Sept. 2020)
  • International Relationship Officer for student internships (2016-2020, 2024-2025) and overseas studies (2016-2018)
  • Professional training: Leadership in sustainability – Ecodesign and Life Cycle Assessment (in Bucharest), part of the Leadsus research program: Leadership in Sustainability – training material development & trainer, 2014-2015 
  • Referent Univ. Grenoble Alpes of the EIT Raw materials: https://eitrawmaterials.eu for: INNOMAT: Innovation Management through integration of LCA Training Packages: https://eitrawmaterials.eu/course/innomat/; CARED: Catalyse Remanufacturing Through Design Bootcamp: https://eitrawmaterials.eu/course/cared-catalyse-remanufacturing-through-design-bootcamp/

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Maud Rio is an Associate Professor at Grenoble Alps University G-SCOP Laboratory, part of the CoSYS for Systemic Design: human, environment and technologies since 2014. Maud’s research includes developing models and designing methods based on the approach of integrated socio-ecological design of product and processes in line with emerging technologies leading to new strong sustainable forms of consumption and production. She is currently the chief investigator of research projects described in personnal website: the EU EECONE project (2023-2026); the Cross-Disciplinary Project IDEX PowerAlps (2022-2025); the ASEEC project (Eco-SD)in collaboration with other research centers. Maud has co-authored a number of research paper and reports linked with developing methods and tools to integrate design for strong and absolute sustainability practices in the engineering systems. Increase designers proactivity during the design process of products and services integrated into socio-technical and ecological systems to participate to permacircularity is a key motivation in her research. She obtained the academic grade of french habilitation to manage research in January 2025. Her research habilitation synthesises 12 years of research outcomes in a reflexive manner, addressing a permacircular systemic framework to researchers and engineers to integrate strong and absolute sustainability in design activities (manuscript link: https://hal.science/tel-05019633v1/document). 
Prior to this role, Maud has worked two years as a research fellow at RMIT University’s Centre for Design and Society in Australia. She has completed her PhD in 2012 after being graduated in mechanical design engineering and sustainable development in 2009 from the UTT (France).

Activités / CV

Diplômée de l’UTT, ingénieure en conception de systèmes mécaniques et du master d’éco-conception et d’écologie industrielle en 2009, d’un doctorat (2012) portant sur l’interopérabilité des systèmes d’évaluation environnementale et de conception mécanique dans les processus de développement des produits multiphysiques, suivis de deux années de chercheur contractuel au RMIT en Australie, au Centre for Design and Sustainability, Maud Rio est depuis 12 ans Maîtresse de Conférences à l’Université Grenoble Alpes, au G-SCOP, dans l’équipe CoSys (Conception Systémique : humain, environnement, technologie). Enseignante en Génie Mécanique et Productique de l’IUT1 en bureau d’étude, elle a mis en place la formation à la soutenabilité et est responsable des stages de dernière année et référente RSE au département. Ses principaux projets de recherche interdisciplinaire (dont cinq thèses de doctorat clôturées, quatre en cours) structurent ses travaux, en souscrivant de manière complémentaire aux objectifs d’intégration de la soutenabilité dans les processus de conception de systèmes socio-techniques complexes impliqués dans l’électronique de puissance et les systèmes numériques, avec pour ambition de permettre aux concepteurs d’être proactifs dans le développement de méthodes d’écoconception circulaires soutenables respectant les limites planétaires en agissant en synergie au niveau local grenoblois (IDEX CDP), national (ANR), et européen (EECONE). Le 11 février 2025, elle soutient son Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches portant sur les enjeux permacirculaires en conception intégrée, exposant résultats et ambitions scientifiques pour transformer les processus d’ingénierie au XXIe siècle, visant une mutation plurielle des sociétés industrielles. Les travaux actuels explorent la redirection écologique des organisations et la sobriété des modes de vie, pour s’inscrire dans une démarche régénérative des écosystèmes naturels dont dépendent ces réseaux d’acteurs.

January 11th 2025

December 2012

 

2009 & 2008

2005

2003


French Habilitation to Manage Research, Habilitation à Diriger les Recherche, IMEP2 Doctoral School, Grenoble (France)

PhD in Ecodesign and Mechanical Design Engineering (Sustainability) Eco-design, Life Cycle Engineering, Mechanical Design Engineering UTT (France)

Double Master degree: in Mechanical Engineering & in Management in Sustainable Development, Life Cycle Engineering, Industrial Ecology UTT (France)
University Degree in Sciences, UTT (France)
Scientific Bachelor, Mathematical, Lorient (France)

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