Niclas Björsell is Professor in Electronics in Department of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Science at the University of Gävle, where he is research director of the strategic research area Intelligent Industry and head of subject for Electrical Engineering and Physics.

He has more than 30 years of experience from research and development projects; both national and international and mainly in collaborations between industry and the academy. His research interests include measurement technology, wireless communication, robotics, automation and predictive maintenance. The most recent projects are within predictive maintenance. Within the EU Green collaboration, he participates in TecSkill together with the Universities in Extremadura, Évora and Parma and has a Cotutelle PhD student together with Angers.

Selection of recent references

1. A. H. Dadash and N. Björsell “A Framework for Designing Degradation-Aware Controller Based on Empirical Estimation of the State-Action Cost and Model Predictive Control”, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, pp 599-613. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmsy.2024.08.024
2. M. Hassan and N. Björsell. “Deployment and Maintenance of Digital Twin in a Secure Industrial Environment”, IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (ICPHM24) 2024.
3. A. Bemani and N. Björsell, “Low-Latency Collaborative Predictive Maintenance: Over-the-Air Federated Learning in Noisy Industrial Environments,” Sensors, vol. 23, no. 18, p. 7840, Sep. 2023, https://doi.org/10.3390/s23187840 .
4. M. Hassan, M. Svadling, and N. Björsell, “Experience from Implementing Digital Twins for Maintenance in Industrial Processes,” Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing., 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-023-02078-4 .

Her research focuses on 1)diversity-oriented, racism-sensitive and dominance-critical didactics in the field of German literature and language, 2) sustainability in teaching and learning at university,3) attitudes of (prospective) teacherstowards various dimensions of diversity (interculturality, multilingualism, religion, gender) from anintersectional perspective.

Recent publications:
Becker, Karina; Hofmann, Michael (ed.): Rassismussensibler Literaturunterricht - Grundlagen, Dimensionen,Herausforderungen, Möglichkeiten (Racism-sensitive literature teaching - basics, dimensions, challenges,possibilities). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2023. Open Access: https://verlag.koenigshausen-neumann.de/product/9783826077852-rassismussensibler-literaturunterricht/
Becker, Karina; Kofer, Martina (ed.): Berufsbildender Deutschunterricht im Kontext von Migration undEinwanderung (Vocational German lessons in the context of migration and immigration). Münster:Waxmann 2023. Open Access: https://www.waxmann.com/waxmann-reihen/waxmannreihe-didaktik/?tx_p2waxmann_pi2%5Breihe%5D=REI100339&tx_p2waxmann_pi2%5Baction%5D=show&tx_p2waxmann_pi2%5Bcontroller%5D=Reihe&cHash=d881a33b31a6da2e1badac51b64291b5
One of her recent project is Second Language Learning for Teenagers at Schools (SLL4Teens) (Erasmus+,11/2023-10/2026) https://eugreenalliance.eu/the-role-of-neurolinguistics-in-foreign-language-learning/.Partners: Angers/Nantes, Parma, Extremadura

Jean-Jacques HELESBEUX from the University of Angers. He is an associate professor of organic chemistry at the Faculty of Health Sciences – Pharmacy Department. He’s running his research activities at SONAS, a lab focusing on natural products chemistry and valorization. Jean-Jacques is particularly involved in projects combining natural products extraction-purification (particularly from renewable ressources) and semisynthesis of analogues with expected optimized pharmacological or biological profile and/or improved physico-chemical properties. Thus, depending on the project and the molecular scaffolds, the corresponding derivatives are then evaluated in different domains, as anti-inflammatory agents modulating the arachidonic cascade, anti-tumoral agents or as biocontrol solutions in the field of alternative crop protection through local and european collaborations.

Recent publications:

1) T. Charpentier, G. Viault, A.-M. Le Ray, N. Bataillé-Simoneau, J.-J. Helesbeux, N. Blon, F. Bastide, M. Marchi, S. Aligon, A. Bruguière, C.-P. Dinh, Z. Benbelkacem, J.-F. Dallery, P. Simoneau, P. Richomme, T. Guillemette, Natural products targeting the fungal unfolded protein response as an alternative crop protection strategy, J. Agric. Food Chem., 2023, 71, 13706-13716. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c03602.

2) J. Courtial, J.-J. Helesbeux, H. Oudart, S. Aligon, M. Bahut, B. Hamon, G. N’Guyen, S. Pigné, A. G. Hussain, C. Pascouau, N. Bataillé-Simoneau, J. Collemare, R. Berruyer, P. Poupard, Characterization of NRPS and PKS genes involved in the biosynthesis of SMs in Alternaria dauci including the phytotoxic polyketide aldaulactone. Sci. Rep., 2022, 12, 8155. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-11896-0.

3) G. Möller, V. Temml, A. Cala Peralta, O. Gruet, P. Richomme, D. Séraphin, G. Viault, L. Kraus, P. Huber-Cantonati, E. Schopfhauser, J. Pachmayr, J. Tokarz, D. Schuster, J-J. Helesbeux, K. A. Dyar, Analogues of natural chalcones as efficient inhibitors of AKR1C3, Metabolites, 2022, 12, 99. DOI: 10.3390/metabo12020099.

4) K. Neukirch, K. Alsabil, C.-P. Dinh, R. Bilancia, M. Raasch, A. Ville, I. Cerqua, G. Viault, D. Bréard, S. Pace, Veronika Temml, E. Brunner, P. Jordan, M. Marques, K. Loeser, A. Gollowitzer, S. Permann, J. Gerstmeier, S. Lorkowski, H. Stuppner, U. Garscha, T. Rodrigues, G. Bernardes, D. Schuster, D. Séraphin, P. Richomme, A. Rossi, A. Mosig, F. Roviezzo, O. Werz, J.-J. Helesbeux, A. Koeberle, Exploration of long-chain vitamin E metabolites for the discovery of a highly potent, orally effective, and metabolically stable 5‑LOX inhibitor that limits inflammation. J. Med. Chem., 2021, 64, 11496-11526. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c00806.