He was until May 2020 a manager at Toulouse Tech Transfer, one of the Tech Transfer companies (SATT) dedicated to French public research. The blueprint of this company in 2012 has been his responsibility as he was Toulouse University’s TTO Director.

He was the president of the C.U.R.I.E network (French association for public research valorisation) between 2011 and 2014. Christophe Haunold was also a Vice-president of the European association for Knowledge Transfer, ASTP.

Educated as a Chemical Engineer (1987), and holds a PhD (1991, Toulouse INP). Christophe has been working in the field of industrial liaison and public research commercialisation for 29 years, as an expert, a Director and a TT Officer.