Scientific consulting · Energy · Heat transfer · Research & Innovation

Get your R&D projects moving and secure your R&D tax credit

A technical barrier that will not give way, an R&D tax credit claim to consolidate before an audit, a research strategy to structure : full professor at INSA Lyon and expert reviewer of R&D tax credit claims for the French Ministry of Research, I bring twenty years of academic and industrial research to bear on concrete results for your company.

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Services

Three complementary services, one scientific foundation

From detailed technical analysis to research strategy, including the security of your innovation tax schemes.

Scientific & technical expertise

An independent, evidence-based opinion so you can decide quickly and invest wisely, backed by twenty years of research and international recognition.

State-of-the-art reviews and scientific briefing notes
Feasibility studies and technology assessment
Second scientific opinion and technical due diligence
R&D project support, from concept to prototype
Advanced modelling and numerical simulation

French R&D tax credit (CIR)

Qualified work, a consolidated claim, prepared teams, from an expert who has been reviewing R&D tax credit claims for the French Ministry of Research for fifteen years.

Eligibility assessment of your R&D work
Structuring and writing the supporting scientific file
Preparation for expert reviews and tax audits
Securing your R&D tax credit filings
Training your teams on the requirements of the scheme

Research strategy & management

Your ideas turned into a funded, organised and measurable research programme, with the experience of running a 120-person laboratory.

Definition of scientific roadmaps
Project and partnership design (ANR, ADEME, European programmes)
Setting up joint industry-academia laboratories
Evaluation of research programmes and teams
Mentoring of early-career researchers and R&D managers

Scientific fields

Four areas of competence

Built on 20 years of research at CETHIL (UMR 5008 CNRS), in close collaboration with industry and with major international programmes.

Energy in buildings Heating, cooling, energy demand forecasting, applied artificial intelligence.

Energy storage Thermochemical batteries, phase-change materials, integration of renewable energy.

Microclimate & adaptation Urban heat island, climate change, adaptation of buildings and cities.

Heat and mass transfer Thermal comfort and heat stress, full-scale experiments, multiphysics simulation (LBM, GPU).

Background

Frédéric Kuznik

Distinguished full professor at INSA Lyon and researcher at the Centre for Energy and Thermal Sciences of Lyon (CETHIL, UMR 5008 CNRS), I have devoted my career to building energy and thermal energy storage, from materials through to their integration into energy systems.

I headed CETHIL (120 staff) from 2018 to 2022 and, for ten years, the joint EDF-CETHIL laboratory on high energy efficiency buildings. My time at Lafarge as a senior researcher and project manager gave me first-hand knowledge of what industrial R&D demands. I represent France on the executive committee of the International Energy Agency programme on energy storage.

I act as an expert for the European Commission (EIC, ERC) and for many international funding agencies, and I have been reviewing R&D tax credit claims for the French Ministry of Research for 15 years.

Stanford top 2 %, 5 consecutive years INSA Lyon research medal 2025 PIFI Distinguished Scientist, Chinese Academy of Sciences French delegate, IEA energy storage IHEE, 2021-2022 cohort

References

They have funded, supported or called on my work

42 research and expertise contracts carried out with industrial, institutional and academic partners, in France and abroad.

EDF Lafarge · Holcim ADEME ANR European Commission French Ministry of Research Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Grand Lyon Siniat Sofrigam