Meet Our Spotlight Heroes
Meet our Spotlight Heroes—the men and women at the heart of Air Liquide. From labs to hospitals and plants to roads, they transform industry into sustainable solutions, protecting life and building our future, every day.
Improving everyday life
Behind these everyday products are talented experts who turn science into benefits.
Rovshan, R&D Expert & Technical Community Leader
Rovshan is enhancing the technologies used to clean our domestic, agricultural and industrial water. He creates ozone (O3) nanobubbles to scrub them of pollutants, toxins, and contaminants.
Patricia, R&D Engineer
Patricia has mastered ultra-fast cryogenic freezing for food products. Using extreme ventilated cold at -100°C, Air Liquide’s Cryo Cabinet enables food industry professionals to flash-freeze products, better preserving their textures, flavors, and nutritional properties.
Paul, Technical Manager
Paul makes music with specialty ingredients from nature and science to create the beauty care of tomorrow. In his laboratory, he fine-tunes tailor-made formulas that inspire major cosmetic brands.
Caring for and supporting patients
Supporting patients is the daily commitment of those who put people at the heart of everything they do.
Émilie, Patient Care Nurse
Émilie advises with empathy patients living with chronic diseases, to help them adhere to their treatment and contribute to improving their quality of life. Air Liquide supports 2.3 million patients at home and, by providing the right level of care, contributes to the sustainability of healthcare systems.
Marie, Clinical advisor
For Marie, every call is a new story, a new challenge. She identifies the specific needs of each patient through active listening. Drawing on her human skills and health data analysis, she provides personalized remote care to the patient, offering peace of mind and better quality of life.
Mélanie, Hospital Service Manager
Mélanie does much more than just promptly deliver medical gases throughout the hospitals. By managing and optimizing these gases, she simplifies the work of healthcare professionals so they can focus on their primary mission: saving lives!
Accelerating decarbonization
Decarbonizing industry is, above all, about concrete, collaborative projects led by talented individuals who turn environmental challenges into tangible solutions.
Nicolas, R&D Engineer
Nicolas develops the use of pure oxygen for combustion in glass furnaces at extreme temperatures. These advanced technologies boost energy efficiency while reducing air polluting emissions such as nitrogen oxides or CO₂.
Clotilde, Senior R&D Technician
Clotilde conducts adsorption tests to purify the hydrogen stream, a key step in perfecting low-carbon hydrogen production. Whether it comes from reforming with CO₂ capture, autothermal reforming (ATR), or ammonia cracking, these cutting-edge solutions driven by Air Liquide are essential to decarbonization.
Loïc, Welding Technician
Loïc assembles Turbo-Brayton units—innovative cryogenic equipment designed to cool and liquify methane emissions. Thanks to this technology, LNG carriers can optimize their entire cargo, guaranteeing high-performance maritime transport.
Shilu, Senior Research Scientist
Shilu produces ultra-fine membrane fibers as thin as a human hair to purify gases. This cost-effective and sustainable Air Liquide technology is used for carbon capture or rare gas extraction. Those membranes support industrial efficiency and the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Pushing the boundaries of what is possible
Behind space exploration and the energy challenges of tomorrow are talented individuals who dare to go where no one has gone before.
Anne-Lise, Manufacturing Manager
Anne-Lise supervises the production of liquid helium spheres onboard rockets. By maintaining constant pressure in the propellant tanks during launch, the helium supply improves the reliability of the propulsion system, helping push the frontiers of space exploration.
Manon, Methods Engineer
Manon is in charge of scaling up production for cryocoolers that cool the imaging instruments onboard satellites down to -223°C. This ensures higher image accuracy and observation data, which improves the quality of weather forecasts.
Haruka, Senior Research Scientist
Haruka masters 'Black Mass', a concentrate of precious metals derived from lithium batteries. Through an innovative recycling process, she extracts lithium to give it a second life in the electric vehicles of tomorrow. This technique is a sustainable alternative to mining, and a concrete step for sustainable mobility.
Enabling digital revolution
Behind the technologies shaping our daily lives are experts who have mastered the infinitely small.
Corbin, Research Scientist
Corbin is an expert in vapor deposition processes using proprietary advanced materials. He tests Air Liquide’s novel molecules before they’re supplied to the semiconductor industry. New advanced materials are essential for manufacturing ever more high performance semiconductors, enabling digital innovations such as AI.
Phong, Staff Scientist
Phong tests new etching molecules on silicon wafers. Essential to manufacturing next-generation semiconductors, these innovative molecules reduce the greenhouse gas footprint and improve the connectivity, computing power and energy consumption of electronic devices.
Bellsy, Research Scientist
Bellsy can pinpoint nano impurities in etch molecules, which is equivalent to finding one drop of contaminated water in about 20 Olympic-size swimming pools. Her incredible precision guarantees that Air Liquide provides the highest purity molecules to the semiconductor industry, ensuring chip performance, yield, and reliability.
Jinglei, Production Foreman
Jinglei embodies Air Liquide’s commitment and his greeting (Bao Quan Li) is a promise of absolute purity and quality. True masterpieces of precision, these canisters are emblematic of this zero-defect supply of advanced materials to the giants of the electronics sector, who are inventing the digital future.
Building the future of energy
The future of energy is being shaped by those who envision, create, and implement effective solutions.
Damien, Welding Technician
Damien does not just weld complex piping on a cold box. Each weld bead on the equipment makes nuclear fusion possible—this energy of the future that will reproduce the energy of the Sun on Earth.
Christopher, Workshop Manager
Christopher oversees the turbomachinery assembly of the Turbo-Brayton, a patented flagship Air Liquide technology that could be applied to power transmission via superconducting cables. This could make it possible to transport low-carbon electricity generated by offshore wind farms without loss.
Bernadetta, Superintendent, Construction
Bernadetta oversees civil engineering at Air Liquide Normand'hy site. She orchestrates the construction of one of the world's largest renewable hydrogen plants. By erecting these infrastructures, Bernadetta lays the physical foundations of a low-carbon economy for an entire local ecosystem.
Supporting the industries
Serving the industry means, above all, relying on talented individuals who ensure the continuity of essential operations and contribute to local economic development.
Gumersindo, Bulk Trailer Driver
Gumersindo isn’t just any driver. He is a seasoned professional—cautious, trained and fully qualified to drive a hazmat tractor trailer. By delivering these essential molecules to manufacturing industries in his region, he meets his clients’ needs while contributing to local economic development.
Tom, Packaged Gas Production Operator
The molecules produced and distributed by Air Liquide are essential for hundreds of applications and millions of customers. Tom prepares each cylinder and every order with rigorous precision. He ensures that every customer has the molecules essential to their manufacturing process and supports a multitude of businesses from multinationals to local small businesses.
Tao, Instrument Engineer
Tao operates the cryogenic heart of Air Liquide: Air Separation Units (ASU). He masters the technology to distill atmospheric air and produce oxygen, nitrogen and rare gases. His technical expertise guarantees a reliable and indispensable supply for industries and hospitals in China.
Ensuring safety and reliability
Behind every safe and reliable operation are experts who leave nothing to chance.
Madhava, Staff Scientist
Madhava holds a membrane designed for commercial aircraft. The technology filters air in fuel tanks at a molecular level to create a protective, nitrogen-enriched atmosphere. This invisible shield neutralizes the risk of combustion, ensuring the safety of millions of passengers.
Théo, Testing Operations Manager
Théo masters ultrasound technology which tracks down the slightest imperfection and guarantees the safety of the cylinder before it returns to customers. From his testing center, he certifies the integrity of our cylinders, giving artisans and industry the means to work with full confidence in complete safety.
Eugenia, Maintenance Manager
Eugenia monitors the health of assets of the world's largest oxygen production site. By cross-referencing data with field signals, she ensures maximum reliability for every operation. Her expertise secures her client's activity and, with it, the energy sovereignty of South Africa.
Yassine, Team Leader - Filling Center ONM*
Yassine supervises the loading and safety of shipments. His rigorous stock handling and mastery of distribution rules guarantee the reliable delivery of millions of tons of gas. By safeguarding the compliance of every load, he ensures service continuity for thousands of customers.