Blandine Antoine
MIT doctoral student with strong interest in energy and development. Co-founder of a non-profit dedicated to educating lay-people and primary school students on energy and climate change issues. Co-wrote a popularization book on energy technology
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Industries: | Cleantech, Education |
| Skills: | Engineering, English, French, Languages |
| Next step: | Build EGG-tech into a successful electricity distributor in Africa. |
| Location: | Cambridge, USA |
| Groups: | Global Social Venture Competition, Ignite Clean Energy (ICE) |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Getting press, Meeting new people, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company |
| Tags: | energy and development |
| Schools: | Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausees, Ecole Polytechnique, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California System - Berkeley |
FEATURED STARTUP
EGG-energy
EGG-energy
EGG-energy links low-income consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa to power producers by setting up a network of “charge & swap” service stations where we swap empty batteries for fully charged ones.
- Startup type: Competition Entry
- Status: Active
- Stage: Prototyping
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Center for Advanced Nuclear Systems, MIT, Cambridge, MA |
| Position: | Doctoral Research Assistant |
| Time period: | September 2008 - Present |
| Description: | Advisor: Prof. Michael Golay
Non-proliferation issues associated with the expansion of civilian nuclear power. |
| Employer: | Chemical Engineering Department, MIT, Cambridge, MA |
| Position: | Teaching assistant |
| Time period: | September 2008 - December 2008 |
| Description: | Profs M. Golay, J. Freidberg, J. Tester
Cooperated with faculty in teaching “Sustainable Energy” (90 undergraduate and graduate students) |
| Employer: | Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Climate Change, MIT, Cambridge, MA |
| Position: | Research Assistant |
| Time period: | June 2008 - August 2008 |
| Description: | Advisor: Dr. John Reilly
Modelling land-use changes and biofuel production in a computational general equilibrium model (EPPA) to help forecast long term green-house gases emissions by the global economy. |
| Employer: | Agence Francaise de Developement |
| Position: | Research Assistant |
| Time period: | January 2007 - August 2007 |
| Description: | Researched and met with energy management institutions (dealing with renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy demand) in 8 developing countries. |
| Employer: | The Energy World Tour, Oslo to São Paulo including 2 months spent studying energy issues in Morocco, Senegal, Angola, South Africa and Zambia |
| Position: | Co-founder, treasurer and reporter for French non-profit Prométhée |
| Time period: | June 2006 - October 2008 |
| Description: | · Engaged in a 7 month world tour, researching energy innovations in 17 countries (www.promethee-energie.org).
· Set up partnership with 20 sponsors. · Co-managed the design of class material for primary school children, on traditional and renewable energy technologies. Set up a pilot pedagogical partnership with 7 French primary classes. · Presented these technical and social innovations in written and video format, a 429-page popularizing book, oral presentations to a score of school, university or more general publics (including MIT series « Today and Tomorrow’s Leaders » and a June 08 talk at the Googleplex), radio and TV talk-shows and a photo exhibit. · Institutions for Energy Management in Developing Countries, a field study for the French Development Agency. |
| Employer: | General Electric, Nuclear Division, San Jose, CA |
| Position: | Mechanical engineer |
| Time period: | January 2006 - July 2006 |
| Description: | Sup : Lawrence Fleischer
Member of the strainer design team in charge of equipping Japanese nuclear plants (BWRs) with new safety equipment (strainer): designed, performed and analysed scaling tests to validate the proposed design. |
| Employer: | Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France |
| Position: | Lecturer and teaching assistant |
| Time period: | September 2005 - December 2005 |
| Description: | Prof. Jean-Louis Basdevant
Developed the syllabus for and taught “Energy and Environment” (38 graduate students) |
| Employer: | French Nuclear Safety Authority (formerly DGSNR), Paris, France |
| Position: | Intern |
| Time period: | September 2005 - December 2005 |
| Description: | Sup : Philippe Bodénez
· Took part in the National Public Debate on radioactive waste that was held across France in Fall 2005 · Assisted the board in drafting the 2006 government's project of law on nuclear waste management, taking into account input from the public, expert and research bodies, planning agencies and environmental organizations. |
| Employer: | Thermal Hydraulics Lab, Nuclear Engineering Department, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
| Position: | Research Assistant |
| Time period: | January 2005 - August 2005 |
| Description: | Advisor: Prof. Per Peterson
· Designed and performed experiments on chemistry control of fluoride molten salts. These could be used as a heat exchanging fluid for hydrogen producing nuclear plants (NGNP program, high temperature reactors). · Cooperated with UT Wisconsin, and managed a 3 people team on this project. |
| Employer: | Nuclear Engineering Department, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
| Position: | Teaching assistant |
| Time period: | September 2004 - May 2005 |
| Description: | Profs Jasmina Vujic and Stan Prussin
Cooperated with faculty in teaching the undergraduate “Nuclear Physics” and “Irradiation Effects on Matter” courses (resp. 30 and 12 students). Outsanding Graduate Instructor Award |
| Employer: | Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan |
| Position: | Research Assistant |
| Time period: | May 2004 - August 2004 |
| Description: | Advisor: Prof. Akira Kohyama
Performed mechanical testing of SiCf/SiC composites. This new and promising material has been retained as a top-list candidate for use in fusion reactors blankets and heat exchangers for hydrogen production by thermo-chemical means. |
| Employer: | French Headquarters, Defence Ministry, Paris, France |
| Position: | Army lieutenant |
| Time period: | December 2001 - April 2002 |
| Description: | Sup : Admiral Thierry d’Arbonneau
· Helped prepare meetings between the French pan-army head-quarters and their Eastern European and Central Asian colleagues to arrange multi-lateral military cooperation defined in NATO’s Partnership for Peace. · Trained as a section leader at the Saint-Cyr National Training Centre for Army officers in Coëtquidan (Brittany). |
| Employer: | Regional Children Hospital, Omsk, Russia |
| Position: | Assistant care-taker (as part of a language training program) |
| Time period: | August 2003 |
| Employer: | Atofina Inc. Port-Arthur Refinery, Port-Arthur, TX |
| Position: | Summer intern |
| Time period: | August 2002 |
| Description: | · Collected data for the HR department to evaluate the feasibility of an internal step-up program.
· Performed daily hands-on operations on the refinery site as part of the maintenance crew. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausees |
| Time period: | 2006 - 2007 |
| Degree: | Master Public Administration |
| University: | University of California System - Berkeley |
| Time period: | 2004 - 2005 |
| Degree: | Nuclear Engineering, MSc |
| University: | Ecole Polytechnique |
| Time period: | 2001 - 2004 |
| Degree: | Material Science & Physics, MSc |
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 2007 - Present |
| Degree: | Engineering Systems, PhD |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | 1. B. Antoine, A. Gurgel, J. Reilly; “Will Recreation Demand for Land Limit Biofuels Production?”; Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization: Vol. 6 : Iss. 2, Article 5, 2008. Free download on http://www.bepress.com/jafio/vol6/iss2/art5.
2. B. Antoine, Sécurité énergétique, économie agricole et environnement : le trio gagnant des biocarburants ? , ResPublica Nova, déc. 2007 |
| Papers: | 1. B. Antoine, E. Rodriguez-Vieitez, “Supply security in nuclear matters”, Proceedings of the Global 2009 Conference “The Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Sustainable Options & Industrial Perspectives”, September 6-11, 2009, Paris (France).
2. B. Antoine, E. Renaud, Politiques Publiques et Maîtrise de l’Energie : Institutions et 3. Développement, energy management (access to modern forms of energy, renewable energy deployment and energy saving programs) in 8 developping and emerging countries (Brazil, China, India, Morocco, Pakistan, Senegal, South Africa, Zambia), June 2007, 186 pages 3. B. Antoine, E. Renaud, Le Tour des Energies, several articles published in La Jaune et la Rouge : n°635 mai-juillet 2008 (de la Chine au Japon), n°631 janvier 2008 (agrocarburants en Inde), n°630 décembre 2007 (sur les pas d’Alexandre le Grand, l’énergie au Pakistan), n°626 juillet 2007 (de Bergen à Ceuta : expériences européennes) 4. E. Renaud, B. Antoine, Le Tour des Energies : l’Afrique en mouvement 1 et 2, Energy for Africa n°4 (nov. 2007) et 5 (mai 2008) 5. E. Renaud, B. Antoine, Le Tour des Energies : une Afrique contrastée, La Jaune et la Rouge n°628, octobre 2007 6. B. Antoine, E. Renaud, La foudre de Thor, Libération Maroc, 26 février 2007 7. B. Laurenty, G. Fukuda, D. Damba, A. Mai, P. Peterson, “Inhibiting corrosion in molten fluoride salts: investigation on Flinak”, AIChE November 2005 conference proceeding. Best student paper award |
| Books: | B. Antoine, E. Renaud, Le Tour du monde des Energies (The Energy World Tour), JC Lattès publishing, May 7th 2008, 428 pages |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Former captain and goal-keeper of the Ecole Polytechnique’s feminine handball team |
| Hobbies: | Voice lessons and voice performance, literature, anything that has to do with energy and development ! |
| Awards: | 2009: Nomination to the MIT Goodwin Medal for graduate student instructors.
2007: MIT Presidential Fellow. 2004-present: Member of the Corps des Ponts et Chaussées (ranked in top 5% of class at Ecole Polytechnique), Carnot Foundation Fellow 2005: Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor in UC Berkeley, Best Student Paper Award (AIChE November 2005 conference), Society of Women Engineers Fellow, MIT Dean of Engineering Fellow (declined). 2004: Outstanding Undergraduate Research at Ecole Polytechnique (for the research done in Kyoto). 2002-2005: Student representative on the Administrative Board of the Ecole Polytechnique. 2002: Bronze Medal for National Defence (France). |
Blandine's Startups (1)
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EGG-energy
EGG-energy links low-income consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa to power producers by setting up a network of âcharge & swapâ service stations where we swap empty batteries for fully charged ones.
Blandine's Contacts (6)
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Mark Yen
Pursuing BSc in EECS and in Management Science at MIT, and working as Student Consultant at MIT IS&T Computing Help Desk.
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Alla Jezmir
MBA , Harvard Business School and MPA, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Will be joining Calvert Foundation as Principal of the Green Portfolio.
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Emmanuel Cassimatis
Master in Management from Edhec Business School, currently pursuing Masters at Harvard Business School.
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Romain Lacombe
French, 24, MIT graduate, co-founder of a stealth-mode mobile web company.