Océane Alirol: A career shaped by scientific commitment

A path woven with conviction

Within EVEA’s Textile team, which specialises in environmental modelling, Océane continues to weave the threads of a long-standing story with the cooperative.

A chemical engineer with a focus on materials science, she has always been drawn to the sciences. Throughout her studies, she consistently chose environmental topics whenever she had the choice – an unusual path in a field where few chemists ventured into environmental assessment. Trained in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) at France’s CSTB research centre in Grenoble, she became an expert on metals, cement, wood, glass – in short, on everything that is built to last.

Océane first joined EVEA in 2011, spending two years mainly within the Building team. There, she worked on dataset development and on verifying FDES – France’s Environmental and Health Product Declarations for construction products, a kind of technical identity card for building materials.
 

She also contributed to the development of internal tools, including evDEC ©, EVEA’s software solution for producing FDES or PEP (Product Environmental Profiles).

Returning to her roots - and finding new energy

Then came a Californian interlude: a family move abroad, a pause, and a fresh perspective. When she returned to France in 2022, her former colleague Samuel Causse encouraged her to rejoin EVEA. This time, she entered the Packaging team, then the Textile team.

She has since become one of EVEA’s SimaPro © reference experts, the person colleagues turn to for the thorniest questions. She reviews, refines and clarifies methodological choices, ensuring consistency and scientific robustness.

What motivates her: projects where she knows she is genuinely useful; colleagues full of energy; and the diversity of subjects she encounters. With support from HR, she has also been able to adapt her workstation, tools and schedule. Océane lives with Sharp syndrome – combining severe Raynaud’s symptoms, rheumatoid arthritis and significant fatigue. She faces these constraints with clarity and resolve, balancing health considerations with unwavering professional commitment.

Her environmental engagement is equally uncompromising. She advocates for a multicriteria approach aligned with the European PEF framework and its 16 indicators, enriched with social dimensions. Her aspiration: to adjust all relevant parameters in order to produce a single, intelligible, rigorous and comprehensive score. Not an easy task – but that is exactly what appeals to her. She enjoys complexity: understanding, modelling, resolving, and engineering practical solutions to real-world problems.

Today, she lives in Cluses, in the Savoie region. She crafts, sews, arranges flowers, and hikes the surrounding trails. Her projects regularly bring her to EVEA’s Lyon office, where she reconnects with colleagues and runs sewing and repair workshops – spaces where personal interests, professional engagement and textile passion naturally meet.

With Océane, connections are woven and materials take on new life.