Jean-Yves Berthou holds a doctorate in computer science and is an academic with a research background in simulation and high-performance scientific computing. He spent around ten years working for public research organizations and almost twenty years in industry, mainly in R&D at EDF. For the past four years, he has been responsible for setting up an innovation dynamic and approach at EDF's Transformation and Operational Efficiency Division, which has resulted in the industrialization of over 250 innovations and the contractualization of some sixty partnerships with startups. From 2011 to 2015, Jean-Yves Berthou was head of the Numerical and Mathematical Department (NuMa) at the French National Research Agency, responsible for organizing the selection, funding and monitoring of research projects, as well as setting up European and international collaborations. From 1997 to 2011, he held various positions at EDF's research division, EDF R&D. He was successively researcher, project leader, manager and then director of the Simulation program and the Information Technologies program at EDF R&D. These various missions naturally led him to collaborate with Inria, notably when he sat on the institute's evaluation commission between 2008 and 2011. For the past fifteen years, Jean-Yves Berthou has been regularly called upon by the European Commission for expert missions, particularly in the fields of high-performance computing, open science and research and innovation strategies.