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23 Oct 2025 | Paris, France

Akshay Bansal

Global R&D Energy Program Leader | Creativity & Open Innovation Coordinator

ArcelorMittal Global R&D

Maizières-les-Metz, France

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My organisation

Global Research and Development is an ambidextrous organization, serving simultaneously ArcelorMittal's business of today and building the foundation for the business of tomorrow. Broad diversity, a can-do mindset and global reach are the key strengths of our organization. ArcelorMittal employs around 1,500 full-time researchers at 11 geographical sites throughout the world, with centres strategically placed in Europe, North and South America and close to key operations and customers. These centres are where new steel products, processes and solutions are envisioned, developed, tested, improved and deployed. ArcelorMittal invests in R&D activities that keep us at the forefront of innovation and put us ahead of the competition as the material and steel manufacturer of choice for our customers
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About me

Akshay is an experienced researcher & project leader and holds a PhD & Diplôme d'Ingénieur (MS) in Material processing & Energy systems. He actively participates to higher energy efficiency & zero CO2 efforts at ArcelorMittal via his current roles at Maizières Process R&D : (i) Researcher, (ii) Global R&D Energy Program Leader, and, (iii) Creativity & Open Innovation Coordinator for Maizières Process Center.

He enjoys creative problem solving applied to various domains and participates to preparation of strategic vision & roadmaps aligned with long term goals of the organization. He also participates to development of novel solutions for Energy Systems applied to Material Processing with the help of numerical models & experimental analyses.

He has published over 5 peer reviewed journal articles, proceedings, has co-authored 7 international patents and has delivered several invited talks.

Education & Training:
Leadership Pipeline - Aware program | ArcelorMittal , Duke Corporate Education | 2022
PhD | Energy, Mechanics and Materials | IJL, CNRS, U Lorraine | 2016
Dipl.-Ing. (MS) | Energy Systems | INSA Rouen | 2011
M.S. (Research) | Energy, Fluids and Optics | U Rouen & INSA Rouen | 2011

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