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Dr. Jean-Jacques Royer and Dr. Madina Tungatarova

After Dr. Jean-Jacques Royer earned his Ph.D. in advanced geostatistics, he spent a research engineer career at CNRS (French National Scientific Research Institute) where he developed computer programs in 3&4D modeling for natural resource estimation and exploration. He co-leaded the Industrial Research gOcad Consortium (now RING), a founder of the start-up Paradigm. He launched/participated in several European research projects (Geothermal, 3D modeling, ProMine, BioMore, …). He authored more than 140 scientific contributions, patents, and software copyrights. He made expertise in the oil & gas, geothermic and mining industry in resource estimation, numerical modeling, micro seismicity, and hydraulic fracturing. He also organized International Conferences/Training Courses in 3D modeling: PUC Rio, Brazil (2001-2005); Petrobras, Brazil (2002-2004), UFA, USATU Ufa, Russia (2007), ProMine (2010-2014), Freiberg, Berlin, Germany (2010-2014), Geological Survey of Sweden, Portugal, Finland, (2013-2016), Kazakhstan (2010-2018), PolyMetal (2018), and Kazzinc (2018). Member of EAGE, SPE, SEG, and SGA international organizations. As an external professor in geomathematics at the Mining School (ENSMIN) and at the National Geological School (ENSG) in Nancy, he was director of more than 28 Ph.D., over the last 25 years, and 5 to 8 masters annually. He co-leaded a Franco-Kazakhstan Master in GeoEnergy (2010 - 2017) involving the main Universities in Almaty (Al-Farabi, KazNu, KBTU). He was a member of the FSH-COPREP, a French oil & gas committee for financing research projects (2000 - 2008); a member of the International Science and Commercialization Board - The World bank's Fostering Productive Innovations Project- (2017 – Present) for selecting, evaluating, monitoring scientific and technological projects for the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Kazakhstan; a member of the Adviser Board (2017-2019) of European projects in robots in mining (UNEXMIN), and metal extraction from geothermal brines (CHPM); an expert in selecting scientific and technological European projects (Georgia, Serbia) (2018 - Present). He was treasurer of CODATA (2000-2008), an international body of ICSU, devoted to improving data availability and usability, and promoting collaboration in Open Science; contributor to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Geneva, round tables & debates at UNESCO, and CERN. Organizer or co-organizer of several Internal Conferences or Meetings on computing, modeling, and data processing: Leeds, UK, 1990; Enschede, NL, 1993; Int. CODATA Conf., Chambéry, F, 1994; Int. Conf. on 3D Modeling Nancy, F, 1998; Baveno, I, 2000; CODATA Viz Conf. Paris, F, 2001, 2002; Berlin, G, 2004; Peking, China, 2006; Kiev, Ukraine, 2008. Elected member of the Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences (EMAAS) (since 2015). After Dr. Madina Tungatarova earned her Ph.D. in 2008 in Mechanics at Al-Farabi KazNU, and a Doctor thesis in Engineering at the AGH Scientific and Technical University in Cracow, Poland, she participated in several scientific research projects of the Research Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics (2002-2016). Her research interests are fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, reactive transport in porous media, and metal extraction by underground chemical and bacterial leaching processes in which she authored more than fifteen international scientific papers, software copyrights, and patents. She worked as an Associate Professor, Deputy at the Department of Mechanics for Scientific and Innovative Activities and International Relations at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Since 2017, she is as a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Satbayev University (KazNITU). She was invited as visiting professor at the AGH University, Krakow, Poland (2016, 2017) and at the University of Lorraine, Nancy, France (2016). As project executive, she leaded projects funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and was supervisor of a project financed by the “Fostering Productive Innovation” grant program of the World Bank. She wan several prestigious awards "Best Young Scientist - 2007" (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University KazNU), INTAS research scholarship (2007-2008), a research scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD (2007 – 2008), and a Polish scholarship UNESCO Committee (2008), a research grant of the Public Fund of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan to support young Kazakhstani scientists (2008), a grant “Best lecturer of Kazakhstan universities”, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2016).
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