Chairpersons

CAFMET 2025 : An event around Metrology, Quality and Measurement

Abdérafi CHARKI
Teacher-Researcher
POLYTECH ANGERS, France

After extensive industrial experience as a project manager, Dr. Abdérafi CHARKI is currently a professor at POLYTECH Angers, the engineering school of the University of Angers, where he teaches mechanics, quality, metrology and dependability, among other subjects. He has contributed to several projects on characterizing the behavior and performance of systems and components, and on assessing uncertainties and reliability.

Walid Touayar président du CAFMET

Walid TOUAYAR
University Professor
Tunis, Tunisia

Holder of both a doctorate from the CNAM (Paris) in metrology and physical systems and a university habilitation thesis in physics from the Faculty of Science in Tunis. Prof. Walid TOUAYAR was previously a research and training engineer at INM-CNAM-Paris, responsible for setting up the French national reference in the field of radiometry. Since the end of 1997, he has been teaching metrology as a university professor at INSAT in Tunis. He has been head of the evaluation team at TUNAS since 2000. Since 2023, he has been an international auditor for the Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur, CTI-France.

Georges BONNIER​
International Consultant 
France

Until 2006, Dr. Georges BONNIER was Deputy Director of the "Institut National de Métrologie" (LNE-INM France), and Head of the Temperature Laboratory. Author of numerous scientific articles in thermal metrology, Dr. Bonnier was responsible for the implementation of national references for thermal metrology in France. Now retired, he works actively as an international metrology consultant and is also very active in the association CAFMET, in order to develop metrology in Africa.

Marc HIMBERT​
Professor
LNE-CNAM, France

After a double training in Sciences (ENS) and in management (Sciences Po, CHEDE), Prof. Marc HIMBERT has been teaching metrology for 30 years as a Professor at CNAM (France). He was for a long time in charge of the Joint Metrology Laboratory LNE - CNAM. He chairs the Laboratories section of COFRAC (Comité Français d'Accréditation), the C2 commission of IUPAP (The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) and the assembly of CNAM chairs. He managed the European project AFREQEN.

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