The founding team of So Sponge is made up of experts with complementary backgrounds:
Our mission is to protect and restore the natural world through innovative conservation efforts, community engagement, and sustainable practices.
Guirec is a serial entrepreneur for 10 years, joined the project to lead the operations and contribute to product development and market entry strategy.
Elsa was an R&D engineer and project manager at IFPEN until December 2022. She has been working part-time on the So-Sponge project since 2020 and is now working full-time.
Melaz, the project's originator, is an associate professor in Process Engineering at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, affiliated with the Laboratory of Automatic Control, Process Engineering, and Pharmaceutical Engineering (LAGEPP) within the DYCOP team (Process Dynamics, Control, and Observability). Through a Scientific Contest contract, she joined the project on a part-time basis.