Laurent Augé graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003 in addition to Ecole Centrale Lyon in France, with a major in civil and environmental engineering. He has been working for 20 years in the nuclear industry. In 2016 he joined EDF where he was responsible for CIGEO, the French deep geological disposal project for high level and intermediate level and long-lived radioactive waste, in relation with ANDRA, owner of the CIGEO project. Since 2020, he works for Cyclife, a 100% EDF subsidiary, specialized in decommissioning and waste management. He was appointed Director of development of Cyclife in September 2022.