European innovation project manager
Eugénie Pessia is the European Innovation Project Manager at Lyonbiopole. Within the innovation team, she mainly supports members in structuring and setting up their research and innovation projects on a European scale.
Previously, Eugénie taught during her thesis (Licences 2&3), worked for two years in computer engineering, and then worked for five years as a consultant in innovation financing within a large consulting group (two-and-a-half years setting up European collaborative projects in biology and computer science and two-and-a-half years advising on CIR/CII/JEI in computer science).
Eugénie has a Master’s degree in Biosciences (ENS Lyon) and a PhD in bioinformatics and evolutionary genomics (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1).