Dr. Tiphaine Jeanniard-du-Dot is a Research Scientist at the Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique -, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department for Biological Sciences at La Rochelle University in France. Her research focuses on understanding interactions between environmental parameters, foraging ecology, energetics, and life history of free-ranging seals worldwide in a management and conservation perspective, with a strong biologging and biotelemetry (and related statistical and mathematical methods) component. She is a member of the Pole of Excellence in Biologging in France, as well as a member of the Specialized Committee on Innovating and Transverse Instrumentation (CSIIT). She has been collaborating with engineers to develop new types of biologgers, and more recently with computer scientists to implement new AI-based methods to biologging-derived data. She is interested in light-weight models to implement on-board biologgers themselves.

Email: tiphaine.jeanniard-du-dot@cebc.cnrs.fr

Website: https://www.tiphaine-jeanniard-du-dot.com/

Dr. Akiko Kato is a research engineer of Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chize, France, the PI of Adelie penguin monitoring program in Antarctica and the vice-president of the International Bio-logging Society. She has been using bio-logging technique since the beginning of her career to studies the ecology, behaviour and physiology of animals, mainly seabirds, focusing on their adaptation to the changing environment.

Email: akiko.kato@cebc.cnrs.fr

Website:https://www.cebc.cnrs.fr/infrastructures/bio-logging/akiko-kato/?lang=en

Dr. Yan Ropert-Coudert is a research director specialising in functional ecology at the Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé CNRS (DR15) UMR7372 with La Rochelle University. He has also been Director of the French Polar Institute (IPEV) since 22 June 2022, after having been Deputy Director of the Institute. He has been involved in polar research since early 1994, when he wintered in the Crozet Archipelago for the Centre d'Ecologie et de Physiologie Energétique in Strasbourg, France. After wintering, he completed a PhD on the foraging activity of penguins at the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo, Japan (NIPR, graduated in 2001 from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Yokohama). He then spent a further 6 years at NIPR, during which time he was field leader of a summer campaign at Dumont d'Urville (1998-1999 season). He also supervised and organised another summer campaign at Dumont d'Urville (2001-2002 season). He also supervised and organised another summer campaign at Dumont d'Urville (2001-2002 season). In 2008, he was recruited as a permanent CNRS researcher, first at the Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien in Strasbourg UMR7178 (2008-2015), then at the Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé (2015- ). In 2011, he became the director of a polar Biological Observatory project, which has continued uninterrupted ever since. He also holds several key positions in national and international Antarctic forums. He is the former chairman of the French National Committee for Arctic and Antarctic Research (CNFRAA), of which he has been a member since 2011. Within the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), he has been a member of the Standing Committee of the Antarctic Treaty System (SCATS) since 2016; and was co-director of the Expert Group on Marine Birds and Mammals (EGBAMM) from 2009 to 2022; director of the Life Sciences Group from 2016 to 2022 (he was secretary of the group between 2012-2016); and finally he is the French delegate to SCAR meetings. He has been a member of the French delegation to the Antarctic Treaty System and its Committee on Environmental Protection since 2018, the French delegation to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) and head of the Science Facilitation expert group at the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP). As a result of his involvement in polar research, he was made a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour on 31 December 2023.

Email: yan.ropert-coudert@cebc.cnrs.fr

Website:https://www.cebc.cnrs.fr/predateurs-marins/yan-ropert-coudert/?lang=en

Dr. Souhail Bakkali is an assistant professor in the L3i-lab of La Rochelle University, La Rochelle, France. He got his PhD degree in Computer Sciences from La Rochelle University in December 2022. His main research interests include multimodal representation learning, document analysis and understanding at the interface of computer vision and natural language processing. He is an active reviewer of ICDAR, Pattern Recognition, NeuroComputing, and ECML. Bakkali has authored and co-authored 9 international scientific articles, journals, workshops, and participated in organizing the international workshop on document analysis systems (DAS) which was held in 2022 at La Rochelle.

Email: souhail.bakkali@univ-lr.fr

Web: https://sbakkalii.github.io/