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Rénato FROIDEVAUX is full professor of biocatalysis at Lille University in France. He is heading the team « Biotransformation, biocatalysis and enzyme » in the BioEcoAgro Joint Cross-Border Research Unit. His research concerns enzymatic biocatalysis (homogeneous and heterogeneous) applied to hydrolysis of agro-food proteins for obtaining bioactive peptides, enzymatic biocatalysis applied to the valorization of lignin for obtaining biobased aromatics. More recently, he developed the concept of "hybrid catalysis" which consists of combining chemical catalysis and enzymatic biocatalysis for biomass valorization. This interdisciplinary concept involves the search for new enzymes, the search for compatible reaction conditions between (bio)catalysts and the development of different types of reactors (one-pot one step, two-pots one-step) and Multi Catalytic Hybrid Materials (also called MMCH) for heterogeneous (bio)catalysis. Author and co-author of more than 50 articles mostly in JCR, 3 book chapters and 3 patents. Total citations almost 800 (WoS), H Index 16. He is a project leader and participant of more than 15 national and international research projects. He is responsible of an Industrial Chair called « Charles Viollette », financed by the European Metropole of Lille and the University of Lille. This chair brings together academic partners from Lille and Canada (INAF in Quebec) and industrial partners in the development of co-products from the agricultural and agro-food industries by biotechnological tools for the production of bioactive molecules for animal, human nutrition and plant health. He was a lecturer in enzyme biocatalysis from 2004 to 2009 in the Franco-Romanian Master's "Bioprocesses in the Agrifood field" between Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi and Lille University, then director of this master's until 2013. Currently, he works with the Technical University Hheorghe Asachi of Iasi (Dr Alexandra BLAGA) for the implementation of a double master'degree in (bio)chemical engineering.