Positions

2005 -                         senior researcher at MathNum (Mathematics and Numerics) dept. of INRAE, MISTEA research unit, Montpellier, France

1996 - 2005                junior researcher at MIA (Applied Mathematics and Informatics) dept. of INRA, LASB research unit, Montpellier, France

1994 - 1996                postdoctoral fellow at the Control Section of the Electrical & Electronic Engineering dept, Imperial College, London, U.K.

Education

2003                          « Habilitation à diriger des recherches » in mathematics, University Montpellier II

1994                          PhD in control science from Ecole des Mines de Paris

Functions

2011 -  2015              head of the INRA-INRIA team ‘MODEMIC’

                                                - MODEMIC project team activity reports

2009 - 2014              director of the lab MISTEA

                                          I have conducted two evaluations by the AERES (French National Reserach Evaluation Council) with Pascal Neveu (deputy director)

                                                - AERES report for the period 2006-2009

                                               -  AERES report for the period 2010-2013

2009 - 2010              head of the INRA- INRIA team ‘MERE'

                                                - MERE project team activity reports

Editorial activities

2022 -                         member of the editorial board,  Mathematics - Section Bio-mathematics

2022 -                         member of the editorial board, Journal of Biological Systems

2021 -                         associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

2021                           guest editor of the special issue "Modelling and Optimal Design of Complex Biological Systems", Processes (with. J. Harmand, N. Dimitrova and I. Simeonov)

2020                           guest editor of the special issue "Modelling and simulation for microbial ecology", Biosciences en Engineering

Expertises

2020                         member of the HCERES evaluation committee of the research unit 'LAGEPP' (Lyon)

2016                         member of the HCERES evaluation committee of the reserach unit 'Chrono-Environnement' (Besançon)

2012                         president of the AERES evaluation committe of the IRSTEA 'MOTIVE' research program (Clermont-Ferrand)

2011 - 2013          member of the piloting committee of the  ‘modeling’ research axis of Labex ‘Numev’ (Montpellier)

2011 -  2014         member of the scientific committee of BIOS dept. of CIRAD Institute

2010 -  2019          member of the scientific committee of Ecotechnologies dept. of IRSTEA Institute