Confirmed Plenary Speakers
8th Tunisian Congress of Mechanics — Sousse, Tunisia
M. A. Laribi
Position: Professeur des Universités | Full Professor
Team: Equipe CoBRA
Department: GMSC, Institut PPRIME
Institution: Université de Poitiers, France
Biography and Academic Background
Professor in the Faculty of Fundamental and Applied Sciences at the University of Poitiers (UP), where he teaches robotics and mechanics.
He has a Mechanical Engineering Degree (specialization on Mechanical Design) from École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Monsatir (E.N.I.M.) in 2001. M.S. in Mechanical Design, 2002.
He received his Ph.D. in Mechanics from the University of Poitiers in 2005 and National Habilitation in Mechanics from the University of Poitiers in 2018.
Research Interests
His research interests, at the Department of G.M.S.C. of Pprime Institute, include robot design and mechanism synthesis.
His main research area in mechanism theory focuses on:
- Forward and Inverse Kinematics
- Singular configurations
- Workspace determination
- Optimal design
Walid Larbi
Position: Professor
Institution: Conservatoire National des arts et métiers, Cnam, Paris, France
Thèmes de recherche
- Modèles éléments finis d'ordre réduit pour la prédiction du comportement dynamique de coques.
- Développement d'outils numériques prédictifs pour l'évaluation des performances vibro-acoustiques.
- Modélisation de la transmission acoustique des entrées d'air de fenêtres.
Abdelmajid Jemni
Position: Professor
Laboratory: LESTE
Department: Energy Engineering Department
Institution: Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir (ENIM), Tunisia
Biography and Academic Background
Professor at the Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Monastir (ENIM) specializing in energy engineering.
Obtained his engineering degree in energy engineering in 1985, his doctorate from INSA Lyon in 1989, specializing in heat transfer, and his doctorate from the Tunis Faculty of Science in 1997.
Prof. Abdelmajid JEMNI joined higher education in 1989 as a teacher-researcher at ENIM.
He was a founding member of the Thermal and Energy Systems Studies Laboratory (LESTE) in 1999.
Positions and Responsibilities
- Director of the Engineering Sciences and Techniques doctoral school at ENIM since September 2021.
- Director of LESTE (2009-2021), Presidential prize for the best research laboratory in 2020.
- Director of ENIM 2005-2011.
- Director of the Energy Engineering Department at ENIM 2003-2005.
Andreas Müller
Title: Univ.-Prof., Dr.-Ing.
Institute: Institute for Machine Intelligence
Institute: Institute of Robotics
Position: Professeur et directeur de
University: Johannes Kepler University Linz an Autriche.