LOUIS-ROMAIN JOLY
Program Manager “Robots&Humans” - SNCF

Louis-Romain JOLY is Program Manager in SNCF Innovation&Research. SNCF group is preparing new solutions that will enable everyone to travel more easily while preserving the planet. Regarding this goal, SNCF Innovation&Research offers new technologies to reinvent the rail system.

Louis-Romain JOLY graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) and from the Universitaet Karslruhe. He started his career in 2001 in a big French automotive company (PSA Peugeot Citroën) as a computing engineer (crankshaft dynamical behaviour and diesel combustion noise quality). Thanks to his expertise, he joined SNCF in 2007 as a diesel engine maintenance engineer. With his team (20 technicians and engineers), he was in charge of maintaining train engines in optimal operational conditions through the definition of maintenance rules and through the technical definition of spare parts.

He moved to SNCF Innovation&Research in 2015. His activities are now focused on Additive Manufacturing and Maintenance Robotics. His main target is to create an ecosystem that will boost robotics in the whole railway sector at least in Europe.