Sary AWAD is a Professor at IMT Atlantique at the Energy Systems and Environmental Engineering Department a part of GEPEA, a joint research unit of CNRS (UMR CNRS 6144), since 2023. He has Joined IMT Atlantique in 2012 as assistant-professor. He holds a Ph. D. from Nantes University (2011) in energy and process engineering. His research focuses on waste/biomass-based sustainable fuels starting from the choice and the characterization of biomass and ending by testing the fuels on internal combustion engines. He has earned experience in chemical, biochemical and thermochemical processing of biomass and on the use of biofuels on internal combustion engines (experimental and modelling). Since October 2023 he is coordinating the HE project COCPIT (https://www.cocpit-horizon.eu/) dealing with algal sustainable aviation and shipping fuels production.