Simon Barnabé is a professor at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), a member of the UQTR Hydrogen Research Institute (IRH), holder of the Industrial Research Chair in Environment and Biotechnology (CRIEB) and co-holder of the Industrial Research Chair in Bioeconomy and Regional Bioenergy (BEE). He is a “regional” researcher who dedicates his research activities to revitalizing resource regions, infrastructures and local expertise through the diversification of biomass products. Mr. Barnabé benefits from more than 30 local and international collaborations with universities, colleges, municipalities and the private sector, and has developed close to 20 industrial partnerships. His team is well known for promoting college-university-business synergy and using municipalities as a vehicle for innovation. Mr. Barnabé currently leads a team of some 15 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in multi-sectoral projects in the emerging biomass and industrial bioprocessing sectors. Mr. Barnabé is also a member of the BioFuelNet Network and the Centre de recherche sur les matériaux renouvelables (CRMR), and plays an active role in organizing the international activities of the VERTECH CITY Network.