THOMANN Guillaume
Chargé de mission Amérique du Sud + Mexique à Grenoble INP - UGA
Référent UGA pour le projet ANR "Atypie Friendly pour une université inclusive"
- Responsible of Mechanics (kinematics, statics, materials resistance) in first year engineering school
- Lectures oriented User Centred Design, Participatory Design and Ergonomics
- Responsible of the “Methods and Tools for personalised Products” module in Master2 program
- Industrial Design and Industrial Design Projects
- Tutorials, organisation of courses and supervision of disabled students
- Recruitments Member, member of the international relation staff
Principal functions and responsibilities
- Grenoble INP - GI Council member (2009-2012)
- G-SCOP laboratory Council member (2008-2017)
- Responsible of a Brafitec project with UNESP, UFPE, and UFPB (2008-2023)
- In charge of the Handicap Mission in the Grenoble Institute of Technology (2008 – 2024)
- Council member of the “Federative Research Institute on Assistive Technology” (IFRATH) national non-lucrative Research group (2012 – 2024)
- Responsible of the Product Design Department at Grenoble INP – Industrial Engineering School (Grenoble INP - GI), 60 students (2016-2021 and 2023-2024)
- Grenoble INP - GI: member of the international relation council, responsible of the strategic relations with South America and Mexico, outcomes and incomes, education and research (2022 – currently)
- Scientific Council member of the G-SCOP laboratory (2021-currently)
- Responsible of the Cosys Research team at the G-SCOP laboratory, 25 researchers (2022 – currently)
Pôle Ingénierie de la conception
Responsable de l'équipe Cosys : Conception Systémique : Humain, Environnement, Technologie
Méthodologie de conception de produit et contribution au outils de Conception centrée utilisateur
Conception et développement d'intefaces personnalisée pour personnes handicapée pour la pratique musicale
Conception et développement de systèmes mobilisant des technologies innovantes et dédidés aux professionnels de santé pour le assister dans leurs pratiques professionnelles
Conception/innovation et fabrication d'outils dand le domaine de l'orthopédie et la traumatologie
Développement d'environnements de travail personnalisés sur ligne de production
Design Methodology of products in the medical and disability domains
User Centred Design
Design of assistance tools for measuring motor function for children and screening for spinal pathologies.
Design of tools in the fiels of orthopedics and traumatology
Distinctions
- Recipient of the national "Scientific and Research Framing Prime " since 2012
- Best Paper award of the CIRP Int. Design Conference in Bochum, Germany in 2013
- Winner of a Visiting Professorship from the State of Sao Paulo, 3 months in Brazil in 2013
- Winner of a Visiting Professorship from the State of Paraiba,3 months in Brazil in 2014,
- Thesis Prize by the French IFRATH National Association, June 2014
- Head of the local organisational comity of the French Brafitec FORUM, Grenoble 2018
- Best Paper award of the JCM Int. Conference at Aix-en-Provence, France in 2020
- Winner of a Visiting Researchership from the State of Paraiba,3 months in Brazil in 2025
Activités / CV
- 11 Ph.D. thesis finished:
- Direction of 1 Ph.D. thesis finished and Co-direction of 4 Ph.D. thesis finished,
- Co-direction of 3 Ph.D. thesis finished in cotutelle with Brazil (2 with UNESP and 1 UFPB),
- 1 Co-engagement of 1 Ph.D. thesis finished in relation with Brazil (UNESP),
- Co-direction of 2 Ph.D. cancelled
- 4 current Ph.D. thesis
- Direction of 1 current Ph.D. thesis, defence on February, 2026
- Co-direction of 1 current Ph.D. thesis, Co-oriented with UFPB, Brazil, defence on 2026
- Co-direction of 1 current Ph.D. thesis, Co-oriented with INATEL, Brazil, defence on 2026
- Co-direction of 1 current Ph.D. thesis, defence on October, 2027
- Direction or co-direction of 30 Research Master students and Direction of 2 Post Doc students
- 20 publications in international scientific journals, 3 patents (2009, 2009, 2024)
- 3 publications in international scientific books, 3 publication in national scientific journals
- 63 articles in International Conferences
- 34 articles in National Conferences and 33 others communications (national and international)
- 5 participations to national comity of international Conference organisation, 3 participations to national comity of national Conference organisation, reviewer for numerous international conferences