Dr. Leila Bonnaud is Researcher at the Materia Nova R&D Center. She is currently working as project leader and is involved in several regional projects, programs with industries and European Projects (FP7). She also coordinates the polymer and composite research activities. Her research interests mostly deal with elaboration, (nano) structuration and characterization of sustainable polymeric materials. After graduating from INSA Lyon as PhD in Material Sciences (polymer and composite materials), she worked as Research Assistant at the Mechanical Engineering department at Texas A&M University for 1.5 year. She then spent more than 2 years as a foreign expert in China at the College of Material Science and Engineering at Guangzhou.