Thierry Marchal is the President and Secretary General of Avicenna Alliance, a non for profit organization advocating for the adoption and deployment of in silico methods in healthcare. Thierry’s vision of Personal Digital Avatar — driven by the potential of healthcare digitalization, including Medical Digital Twin and AI — will be achieved by closely interacting with industrial innovators and SMEs, academic leaders and governmental and regulatory authorities (FDA, EMA, MHRA, etc.).

Thierry is the Ansys Program Director for Healthcare Solutions and Chief Technologist Healthcare for EMEA. In this position, he guides the medical devices, pharmaceutical and biotech activities of Ansys, with a special focus on Europe, through the in silico and personalized medicine evolution. Thierry is a member of the EMA Stakeholders group and the eHealth Stakeholders Group which provides advice and expertise to the European Commission. More recently Thierry became an agent of Liaison for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), with a focus on in silico methods.