Clément Suavet

Clément Suavet joined SEI Headquarters as a Research Fellow in 2015 to work on supply chain sustainability. He has been leading the technical development of the Trase program since its inception by developing the data tools that support the trase.earth platform, and is now overseeing the work of a growing technical team. Clément worked at SEI US between June 2018 and June 2023, and is currently on leave.

Clément is a broadly trained geoscientist with degrees from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (BSc, 2004), Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble (MSc, 2005), and Aix-Marseille University (PhD, 2009).

Before joining SEI, he carried out research on micrometeorites as a graduate student in France, and as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow in Siena (Italy). He then joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on rock samples from the Apollo missions to study ancient magnetic fields on the Moon.