Hakim Ferria works as a European Projects Manager at INSAVALOR, which is the subsidiary for R&D of the engineering school INSA in France. He obtained his doctoral degree in fluid mechanics in 2011 from both ECL, École Centrale de Lyon, France, and KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He worked within the space industries and governmental institutions on fluid-structure interaction in turbines. He is now fully involved in research projects management. He was the project manager of the ITN INFRASTAR. Besides his position at INSAVALOR, he coordinates a network of French European Project Managers of ITN/DN projects coordinated in France. He co-founded the research management working group of which he is now one of the vice-chairs.