Mikael Berthod | AIChE

Mikael Berthod

Vice President
ADNOC Refining Research Center

Dr. Michael Berthod is the vice president of ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company) Refining Research Center (ARRC). He obtained his PhD from Claude Bernard University (Lyon, France) and assumed a prestigious post-doctoral position at Montreal University (Canada) afterwards. Prior to joining ARRC, he worked as a senior research engineer at French Institute of Petroleum Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) and was in charge of supervising multiple national and international research projects in which PhD holders, laboratory chemists and post-doctoral personnel were involved.

He joined ADNOC Refining in 2012 as Research Centre manager with a portfolio of more than 15 years of experience in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis and considerable expertise in pilot plant and industrial projects in the downstream sector. Dr. Berthod played a pivotal role in managing the sole refining applied research center in the country, bearing in mind ADNOC’s vision to couple research and technology to evolve the national refining industry.

He is presently leading, in his capacity as ARRC’s Vice President, a team of multi-disciplined, multi-cultural professionals comprising of 90 scientists, technicians and operators to set a solid expertise for the refining R&D activities of ADNOC. Dr. Berthod is the author of over 18 scientific journal publications and 13 patents, and has considerable participation in several national and international conferences, seminars symposia and forums on refining research & development.