Fellow members

Jérôme AMAUDRUT

Expert and consultant in computer-aided drug design

Jérôme Amaudrut is an expert in molecular modelling and drug design with over twenty years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry. As the founder of In-Silico Scientific Solutions, he currently works as a consultant. He specialises in virtual screening and the optimisation of small molecules in collaboration with medicinal chemistry.

Publications récentes :

• “Viruses Traverse the Human Proteome through Peptide Interfaces That Can Be Biomimetically Leveraged for Drug Discovery.” Meyniel-Schicklin, Laurène, Jérôme Amaudrut, Pierre Mallinjoud, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, no. 5 2024, e2308776121.
• “Discovery of a Novel Series of Potent SHP2 Allosteric Inhibitors.” Petrocchi, Alessia, Alessandro Grillo, Luca Ferrante, et al. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters 14, no. 5 2023, 645–51.

Bernadette ANGLERAUD

A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, holder of the Agrégation and a PhD in History from the University of Lyon 2

Professor Emeritus of preparatory classes for the grandes écoles (Humanities and First Year of Higher Education)

Domaines de recherche centrés sur l’histoire sociale XIXe-XXe siècles :  travaux sur les élites patronales, sur les précarités sociales structurelles et conjoncturelles.

Claude BAILLY-MASSON

Associate Professor of exceptional class in 'DCG' and 'DSCG'.

Fellow member of Group #8 - Sustainable business and organizations

Claude Bailly-Masson has a doctorate in Business Law, a doctorate in Economic Sciences, and is an associate professor in 'DCG' at the Institution des Chartreux. He is also in charge of the preparation for the Diplôme Supérieur de Comptabilité et de Gestion (DSCG) at the ESDSES.

He has carried out work on the autonomy of the company: issues and conditions, and on the contribution in new information of cash flow statements. He has written numerous articles and participated in conferences on the role of the accountant in a CSR approach. He has conducted research on the following issue: the difficulties of understanding intangible assets.

Chief commissioner of the reserve armies, he has developed the unexpected topic of naval strategy and business strategy at naval conferences.

Guillaume BADY

CNRS Research Fellow, Sources Chrétiennes-HiSoMA - UMR 5189

Fellow member of Group #2 - Bible and Ancient Literatures and Cultures

Director of the Institut des Sources Chrétiennes (https://sourceschretiennes.org/), he works on patristic authors (in particular John Chrysostom and Gregory of Nazianzus) and on the Greek Bible. He has a master's degree in theology (UCLy) and is a lecturer at UCLy, but is above all a philologist and editor of texts.

As a secondary research associate, he participates in the seminar of the Research group #2 and in various events organised within the CONFLUENCE Research center.

Recent publications:

• (Direction d'ouvrage collectif) La source sans fin : la Bible chez Jean Chrysostome, Cahiers de Biblia Patristica 23 / Cahiers de Biblindex 4, Turnhout, 2021: avant-propos, p. 5-9, et contribution, «Le ‘calame d’or’: Jean Chrysostome écrivain selon le Pseudo-Georges d’Alexandrie», p. 219-245 2
• Introduction, notes et références bibliques d’Irénée de Lyon, La foi démontrée [= Démonstration de la prédication des apôtres], traduction d’A. Rousseau, Paris 2021

Beatriz ESCUDERO

Dr Beatriz Escudero Pérez is a principal investigator (PI) and a member of the Health Biology and Virology Laboratory at Hospital Clínic in Barcelona, Spain. Her research focuses on the study of haemorrhagic viruses, vaccine development, antiviral treatments, pathogenicity and immunology. She also teaches at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Barcelona.

Claire FAUCHON-CLAUDON

Senior Lecturer in Ancient History

Claire Fauchon-Claudon is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the ENS Lyon, a member of the HiSoMA research unit (UMR 5189) and Deputy Head of the Department of Social Sciences at the ENS Lyon. Her research focuses on the social, cultural and religious history of the late antique East. Co-founder of the HospitAm research project [Hospitality in the Mediterranean world of antiquity]: https://hospitam.hypotheses.org/]. She is also interested in the history of the Syriac world. She teaches ancient history at the ENS in Lyon (courses for third-year undergraduates, Master’s 1 and 2 students; the Agrégation in history).

Emmanuel GABELLIERI

Lecturer at UCLy from 1992 to 2024

Doctor of Canonical Philosophy, holder of the Agrégation in the exceptional class, and Doctor of Philosophy (HDR)

His main research focuses on 20th-century French philosophy, in particular the works of Simone Weil and Maurice Blondel (ranging from religious metaphysics to the philosophy of work and action), the Lyon school of social Catholicism, and contemporary relationships and debates between phenomenology and metaphysics on the one hand, and philosophy and theology on the other.

Claudine GAY

Lecturer in Economics, IUT Lumière, University of Lyon 2

Fellow member of Group #8 - Sustainable business and organizations

Claudine Gay is a researcher at the Research, Transfer and Innovation (RTI) center of the IUT Lumière, which specialises in operational research, knowledge transfer and technology. She is also a researcher in work-study engineering, a specificity of the IUT Lumière, and a member of the Innovation Research Network (RRI). She is also an associate researcher at ESDES The Business School of Ucly, where she began her career as head of the Management and Strategy Department. She is a specialist in the economy of knowledge and the innovation management. She studies, in particular, the territorial dynamics of innovation and the intellectual property strategies of companies. To do so, she develops a multidisciplinary approach, between economics and management. Elected and invested in numerous university functions and collective projects, she has also developed an area of expertise in professional training in higher education.

Main publications:

• (co-direction) Management de l'innovation, Nouveaux enjeux et défis, Méthodes faciles à appliquer, Illustrations et témoignages récents, Dunod, 2017
• Innovation et créativité en PME. Enjeux, mutations et perspectives, Claudine GAY et Bérangère L. SZOSTAK, ISTE éditions, Série Smart Innovation, Volume 19 2019, 193 p.

Laurent LAVAUD

Laurent Lavaud is a Professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and a member of the IHRIM. He specialises in the history of ancient philosophy. His research focuses in particular on Neoplatonism (Plotinus and Proclus) and patristics (Marius Victorinus, Saint Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa).

Christian LE BAS

Associate professor of universities, retired from Lumière Lyon 2 University

Fellow member of Group #8 - Sustainable business and organizations

Christian Le Bas has been a Faculty member at ESDES since 2013. He teaches Economics and Management of Innovation and Intellectual Property. His current research programs are: measurement and determinants of environmental innovation, contemporary forms of the internationalization of Research and Development of large globalized firms, the innovative behavior of firms in relation to CSR, study of recent forms of innovation (frugal or sustainable).

His research topics include environmental innovation (determinants and consequences at the level of industries and companies), management of innovation and intellectual property in a globalized economy, technological innovation, CSR and institutions and economics of inventor productivity.

Laurence MELLERIN

CNRS Research Engineer, Sources Chrétiennes-HiSoMA - UMR 5189

Fellow member of Group #2 - Bible and Ancient Literatures and Cultures

Deputy director of "Sources Chrétiennes"; responsible for the Biblindex project, an online scriptural index of the Church Fathers. In charge, for the collection, of the Latin authors of the "Italy" (in particular Ambrose, Jerome) and "Western Middle Ages" sections.
Former student of the ENS (Ulm), agrégée in Classics, doctorate in medieval history, holder of a canonical licence in theology (UCLy).
She is a lecturer in the Faculty of Theology at UCLy.

Her research topics include new technologies applied to biblical and patristic corpora (digital editing, research into intertextuality); 12th century monastic texts (in particular, Bernard of Clairvaux, Guillaume de Saint-Thierry); Latin patristic exegesis; the history of penance and the theology of sin.

Within the Group #2 - Bible and Ancient Literatures and Cultures, in the framework of the Master of Patristics, she is in charge of the seminars of Latin patristic theology and of the translation of Latin medieval authors, as well as the Latin courses and, in collaboration with G. Bady, the course "Preliminaries to patristic exegesis". She coordinates the seminar on the patristic reception of the Scriptures (Biblindex); the workshop on the patristic reception of the book of Qohelet. She co-organised the colloquium on the soul at the time of its eclipse (16-19 March 2022) with Pascal Marin.

Some publications:

• L. Mellerin (éd.), Guillaume de Saint-Thierry, de Liège au Mont-Dieu, Actes du colloque de Reims (4-7 juin 2018), Cîteaux-Commentarii Cistercienses 69, fasc. 1-4, 2018.
• L. Mellerin (dir.), Lectures de la Bible (Ier-XVe s.), Editions du Cerf, Paris 2017.

Charbel MAALOUF

Charbel MAALOUF, PhD in Patristic Theology (ICP) and in Religious Anthropology (Sorbonne, Paris IV), Senior Lecturer at the ICP, lecturer and researcher specialising in the Church Fathers, particularly the Greek and Arab Fathers, Director of Research at the Institut chrétiens d'Orient, holder of the Chair in Arab Christian Heritage; his research focuses on the Church Fathers in general and the Arab Fathers (Arabic manuscripts). Lecturer at the ICP, the ICO and the UCLy.

Iony RANDRIANIRINA

Lecturer in Private Law and Criminal Sciences, Grenoble Alpes University

Fellow member of Group #6 - Legal, Political and Social Sciences

Doctor in Private Law, specialist in business law and intellectual property, she defended her doctoral thesis in 2013 in Poitiers before arriving in Lyon in 2014 where she taught at the Faculty of Law at UCLy. Qualified as a lecturer in 2015 by the CNU (Conseil National des Universités), she was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Lorraine in 2017, before being transferred to the University of Grenoble Alpes in 2021, where she is a researcher at the CRJ-CUERPI (UR 1965).
Specialist in business law and intellectual property.

Within Group #6 - Legal, Political and Social Sciences, she participates in the project "Mutations et normes" 2020-2025, and coordinates the publication of a collective work entitled Droit des affaires et intelligence artificielle, financed by the CONFLUENCE Research center, to be published in autumn 2022 and associating several teacher-researchers of the Group #6, as well as teacher-researchers of her previous university (Université de Lorraine) and her current university (Université Grenoble Alpes).

Recent publication:

• L'essentiel du droit commercial, Editions Gualino, 2021

Emmanuele VIMERCATI

Emmanuele Vimercati is a professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical Lateran University (Rome) and a visiting professor at the ‘Augustinianum’ Patristic Institute (Rome).

He is collaborating with the UR on the ‘Salvation and Collapse’ research project run by Research Group 2 – Bible, Patristics and Ancient Cultures.

Publications :

• Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age, Leiden - Boston : Brill, 2020 [co-éd.];
• Nicholas of Cusa and the Aristotelian Tradition. A Philosophical and Theological Survey, Berlin - Boston : De Gruyter, 2020 [co-éd.];
• Filosofia e Teologia tra il IV e il V secolo. Contesto, figure e momenti di una sintesi epocale, Cité du Vatican : LUP, 2016 [co-auteur];
• Pouvoir et puissances chez Philon d’Alexandrie, Turnhout : Brepols, 2015 [co-éd.];
• Medioplatonici, Opere, frammenti, testimonianze, Milan : Bompiani, 2015;
• Mediostoicismo di Panezio, Milan : Vita e Pensiero, 2004.