Pr Elisabeth BADENS

Aix Marseille University – CNRS

 Centrale Marseille 

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Elisabeth Badens graduated as a Chemical Engineer (E.N.S.P.I.C.A.M., nowadays Ecole Centrale Marseille) in Marseille where she made there her doctor-engineer degree. She filed her habilitation in Chemical Engineering, as well at Aix Marseille University. She currently has a position of Full Professor (exceptional class) at Aix Marseille University.

Prof. Badens is currently in charge of the group “Processes & Supercritical Fluids” of the Laboratory M2P2 (Mécanique, Modélisation et Procédés Propres ), UMR CNRS 7340, and has been President of the International Society for the Advancement of Supercritical Fluids (ISASF) from 2014 to 2022. Her expertise is focused on Processes using supercritical carbon dioxide applied to the development of innovative products and materials mainly applied to pharmaceuticals and medical devices as well as to the energy field.

She has joined the Journal of Supercritical Fluids as Associate Editor in 2018 and she is now Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Moreover, she has performed more than a hundred reviews for this Journal during the last four years. She also performed numerous reviews for other International Journals.

She is frequently involved in the organization of international congresses (14th European Meeting on Supercritical Fluids, Marseilles-France, 2014; 15th European Meeting on Supercritical Fluids, Essen-Germany, 2016; 16th European Meeting on Supercritical Fluids, Lisboa-Portugal, 2017; 17th European Meeting on Supercritical Fluids, Ciudad Real-Spain, 2019; 18th European Meeting on Supercritical Fluids, Bordeaux-France, 2021; 13th International Symposium on Supercritical Fluids, Montréal-Canada, 2022; 19th European Meeting on Supercritical Fluids, Budapest-Hungary, 2023; 20th European Meeting on Supercritical Fluids, Maribor-Slovenia, 2024).

She is often invited to give talks on supercritical fluids during meetings and she gave a TEDx talk “The clean Factory exists!” in Marseilles in April 2021.

Lastly, Prof. Badens has been Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) during the previous academic year 2022-2023. 

Participation to juries

She has supervised 20 PhD works and she has participated to more than 40 juries of PhD Thesis or HDR.


PhD juries: 22 (including 7 international juries)


J22 - Dr VAN DEPONSEELE Alexandre

Title: Chemical valorization of coffee grounds: use of pressurized fluids for the extraction of molecules of interest; Oral defense: February 2023; University of Savoie Mont Blanc, France.


J21 - Dr CHABNI Dihia

Title: Design and study of the performances of a membrane permeation cell for the separation of a mixture CO2-sunflower oil: Application to the reduction of energy consumption of vegetal oil extraction process, Oral defense: December 2022; University of Toulouse, France.


J20 - Dr PENOY Noémie

Title: Development and optimization of a nanoparticle production method using supercritical fluid technology transposable to an industrial scale; Oral defense: October 2022; University of Liège, Belgium.


J19 - Dr SANTERRE Cyril

Title: Development of new analytical tools for supercritical extraction and chromatography: application to cosmetics; Oral defense: December 2021; University of Paris-Saclay, France.


J18 - Dr JAHOUARI Thomas

Title: Microfluidic anti-solvent process for the synthesis of fluorescent organic nanoparticles in supercritical conditions; Oral defense: March 2021; University of Bordeaux, France.


J17 - Dr STREET Christiane

Title: Construction, operation and performance evaluation of a continuous SFE process for the recovery of hydrocarbons from drill cuttings; Oral defense: May 2020 ; University of Alberta, Canada.


J16 - Dr HEREDIA-MARQUEZ Arturo-Vladimir

Title: Optimization of biofuel production in solar conditions by microalgae; Oral defense: November 2020; University of Nantes, France.


J15 - Dr ZHANG Fan

Title: Supercritical Antisolvent (SAS) Process Intensification through the use of High Pressure (HP) Microfluidic Mixing; November 2019; University of Bordeaux, France.


J14 - Dr LEMOINE Gaëtan

Title: Experimental and numerical study of reactive flows in hydrothermal conditions: fluid mixing and salt precipitation; Oral defense: December 2017; University of Lorraine, France.


J13 - Dr FLEURY Christelle

Title: Optimization of a CO2 pressurized process for the pasteurization and the preservation of liquid dietary supplements; Oral defense: May 2017; University of Bordeaux, France.


J12 - Dr MARTIN VELASCO Victor

Title: Green processes applied to nanoparticle technology : synthesis and formulation; Oral defense: October 2016; University of Valladolid, Spain.


J11 - Dr BEN SAID Anouar

Title: Purification of polyolefins artificially polluted: Study of model compound extraction using supercritical CO2 in autoclave and in twin screw extruder; Oral defense: March 2016; University of Clermont-Ferrand, France.


J10 - Dr BHOMIA Ruchir

Title: Formulation of solid core drug delivery systems using haemoglobin as a model protein and supercritical fluid processing for encapsulation.

Oral defense: July 2015 ; University of Greenwhich, Chatham, UK.


J9 - Dr FERNANDEZ-PONCE Teresa

Title: Estudio del proceso de extraccion y purification de compuestos fenoicos antioxidants a partir de hojas de mango utilizando disolventes a alta presion; Oral defense: March 2015; University of Cadiz, Spain.


J8 - Dr DESJOYE Céline

Title: Eco-extraction and analysis of microalgal lipids for biofuel production; Oral defense: December 2013; University of "Avignon et Pays du Vaucluse".


J7 - Dr WIERSUM Andreas

Title: Elaboration of a strategy for evaluating the potential of novel porous materials for the separation of gases using adsorption; Oral defense: December 2012; University of Aix Marseille, France.


J6 - Dr BAIG Muhammad

Title: Treatment of biomass and products by supercritical fluids; Oral defense: December 2012; University of Montpellier II, France.


J5 - Dr SUBHANI Arfan

Title: Influence of process parameters on the properties of polylactide-based bio-composites; Oral defense: 22 juillet 2011; INPT Toulouse, France.


J4 - Dr DETOISIEN Thibaud

Title: Cristallization of a pharmaceutical salt: Developement of a study methology; Oral defense: June 2010; University Paul Cézanne, CINaM, Marseille, France.


J3 - Dr CALVIGNAC Brice

Title: Implementation of characterization methods of binary mixtures in supercritical medium and modeling of the measured thermodynamic and physical properties; Oral defense: Novembre 2009; Ecole des Mines d’Albi, France.


J2 - Dr MATTEA Facundo

Title: Micronization of Carotenoids and Biopolymers with Supercritical Fluids; Oral defense: July 2009; University of Valladolid, Spain.


J1 - Dr ADAMI Renata

Title: Micronization of pharmaceuticals and food ingredients using supercritical fluid techniques; Oral defense: December 2008; University of Turku, Finland.


HDR Juries : 12


HDR12 - Dr DELRUE Florian - Tutor

Title: Microalgae: an industrial promise for limiting our impact on the environment; Oral defense: April 2023; Aix Marseille University, France. 


HDR11 - Dr SAVOIRE Raphaëlle - Reviewer

Title: Extraction of biomolecules using mechanical or supercritical technologies: from the raw material to the formulated product; Oral defense: October 2020; University of Bordeaux, France. 


HDR10 - Dr HERTZ Audrey - Reviewer

Title: Contribution to the development of supercritical CO2 in the energy field; Oral defense: May 2019; University of Montpellier, France.


HDR9 - Dr CALVIGNAC Brice - Reviewer

Title: Micro and nanotechnologies engineering applied to the development of drug delivery systems; Oral defense: December 2018; University of Angers, France.


HDR8 - Dr ERRIGUIBLE Arnaud - Reviewer

Title: Modeling and simulation of precipitation phenomena in supercritical media; Oral defense: November 2018; University of Bordeaux, France. 


HDR7 - Dr CRAMPON Christelle - Tutor

Title: Development of clean processes using supercritical CO2; Oral defense: April 2018; Aix Marseille University, France.


HDR6 - Dr CAMY Séverine - Reviewer

Title: Sustainable processes using supercritical CO2. From modeling to process design; Oral defense: December 2014; Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (INPT), France. 


HDR5 - Dr VIAN Maryline - Reviewer

Title: Emergence of a concept: Vegetal eco-extraction; Oral defense: June 2011; University of Avignon, France. 


HDR4 - Dr BROTHIER Méryl - Reviewer

Title: Contribution to the elaboration and to the treatment of uranium and/or carbonated materials and associated innovation axes; Oral defense: July 2013; University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I, France.


HDR3 - Dr MANGIN Denis - Reviewer

Title: Complex crystallization and agglomeration processes; Oral defense: December 2009; University Claude Bernard, Lyon I, France. 


HDR2 - Dr JOUSSOT-DUBIEN Christophe - Tutor

Title: Contribution to the development of processes in supercritical medium: chemical reaction and engineering of material elaboration; Oral defense: Decembre 2008; CEA Marcoule, France.


HDR1 - Dr BOUTIN Olivier - Tutor

Title: Supercritical Fluids: A medium of choice for the treatment of solides and liquids; Oral defense: December 2006; University of Aix Marseille, France.

TEDx conference: "CO2 a solution for the clean factory" (April 10, 2021 in Marseille).