Management Board

Boris Dintrans (M) has been the director of the C.I.N.E.S. (Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur) since 2017. He has previously been the director of the National programme of Astrophysics in the National Institute of Universe Sciences (INSU) of CNRS, after more than fifteen years working as a researcher in astrophysics in the team of "Physics of the Sun, Stars and Exoplanets" (PS2E) from the Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP).

Alexander Barth (M) holds a PhD in Oceanography and his major contribution is given by new ideas in data assimilation.  He significantly contributed to the project “Global Ocean Predication with the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM)”. His scientific ideas have led to a high number of presentations at science meetings and publications in peer-reviewed journals. He was awarded the 2010 Outstanding Young Scientist Award for his achievements in the field of data assimilation in oceanography, to which he has contributed original ideas on the development of assimilation strategies for regional ocean models.

An Enseeiht engineer, a graduate of the Institut Polytechnique de Toulouse, Catherine Lambert (F) completed her studies with management training at the Toulouse Business school. Head of the "technical animation and preparation for the future" department at the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES), in October 2013 she took over the management of the CERFACS. She actively contributes to the better positioning of women in business and in research and for this reason, she created a branch of WIA (Women in Aerospace Europe) in Toulouse.

Charles Troupin (M) is a civil Engineer in Physics and holds a PhD in Oceanography. His research interests range from numerical modelling to in situ data interpolation, with a specific focus on submesoscale processes in coastal areas. Also a fervent defender of open data, open access and open code, he has more than ten years of experience in data analysis and numerical modelling and has been the head of the SOCIB Data Center for three years.

Christian Pagé (M)is a Research Engineer and Project Manager at the CERFACS who has experience in European projects, in climate change and data infrastructure. This requires leading work packages, developing and enhancing networks, organizing and leading workshops, contributing to conferences, developing, implementing, pushing novel ideas. He holds a Master’s degree in Atmospheric Sciences and a PhD in the Environment from the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Corentin Lefevre (M) is a Consultant at NEOVIA Innovation. He started with a Bachelor’s in computer sciences, followed by a Master's in Sociology and in History. He specialised in EU Projects at the University of Cergy-Pontoise. He worked four years in innovative clusters animation and has participated in various European projects, including EXDCI-1 and EXDCI-2. He is presently involved in the CEF AQMO & PHIDIAS projects.

Damien Lecarpentier (M) has a Master's in Political Science and a PhD in Social Sciences from the Advanced School of Social Sciences in Paris. He joined CSC as coordinator for international activities in January 2009. He has been involved as work package and task leader in policy work and outreach activities in major FP7-funded projects in the areas of grids (EGI_DS), HPC (DEISA2, PRACE, EESI) and e-Infrastructure policy (e-IRGSP2, e-Infranet).
He is currently managing the EUDAT project, which aims to build a sustainable cross-disciplinary and cross-national data infrastructure providing a set of shared services to access and preserve research data.
 

Dick M.A. Schaap’s (M) expertise is in the field of ocean and marine data management. He is qualified in organising and managing European Commission projects for development and operation of international networks, databases and web interface infrastructures for management and provision of ocean & marine data. He has coordinated international projects for ocean & marine data management and manages the MARIS' organisation.

He is the European projects Officer at CINES. He has a combined expertise in European and international public affairs, by holding a Master Degree in European and International Projects Engineering from the University of Nantes, as well as a Master Degree in Diplomacy and Strategic Negotiations from Paris XI University.

Francesco Osimanti (M) is a Project Manager & SEO Copywriter. He is in charge of the development of Communication and Dissemination Strategies for a wide array of clients with special focus on content creation and on-site SEO. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in International Affairs & Politics (2008) at the University of Pisa. He has moved his career forward through several European NGOs, mostly in the Netherlands & Northern Ireland, as Project Assistant and Communication Officer. He is currently actively involved in Trust-IT on European funded projects on communication and dissemination focused within the areas of cybersecurity and privacy and ICT Standards.

Frédéric Huynh (M) is director of the Earth system Research Infrastructure since 2017. He was IRD Director for Brazil (2012-2016), director of UMR ESPACE-DEV (2001-2012) and co-director of the Remote Sensing Centre (Maison de la Télédétection) in Montpellier. He is an expert of Earth observation and integrated/multidisciplinary approaches to the environment and sustainable development, environmental information and decision support system, interoperability between spatial data and in-situ data and services for earth observation and science. He has published more than 100 scientific references and coordinated more than 50 European and international projects in these fields.

Gilbert Maudire (M) is an Engineer at the Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer; Département Informatique et données marines (IDM). He is mainly involved in two projects: European Marine Observation and Data Network - Biology Lot and Pan-European infrastructure for Ocean & Marine Data Management. He has published several scientific articles in the field of Marine Data Management.

Jean-Christophe Desconnets (M) is a senior engineer at the IRD. He is a geomatic scientist at MICADO research team of ESPACE-DEV. He has two complementary competencies: one in water science (PhD in Water Science, Montpellier University, 1994) and one in computer science (MSc in computer science, Montpellier University, 2000). He has specialized in Spatial Data Infrastructure design with an emphasis on semantic discovery and data processing capabilities. He has participated as WP leader or co-leader in different projects, where he has mainly led the design and implementation of the technical part of spatial data infrastructure. His research activities concern the needs of data and knowledge sharing to provide to the stakeholders with elements for decision support in the environmental domain. He is also involved in the French national land data centre, THEIA, where he leads the data and processing interoperability works with the CNES.

Jukka Seppälä (M) is the head of SYKE-MRC laboratory (Imaging technologies, bio-optics, AquaBox R&D) and group leader, specialising in bio-optical research in the Baltic Sea and bioenergetic research. He boasts a rich list of publications in different scientific journals. He has taken part in several research projects, including the Baltic Blue Biotechnology Alliance and Sustainable Uses of Baltic Marine Resources.

Pascal Prunet (M) is the general director of SPASCIA, working in the processing, the analysis and the exploitation of remote-sensing Earth atmosphere observations from space for environmental applications, in strong connection with French and European research. Previously he has worked for NOVELTIS, a French independent private company which performs innovative scientific engineering studies and implements customised end-user solutions in the fields of Space, the Environment and Sustainable Development.

Peter Thijsse (M) coordinates web application development in the marine data domain in European projects, being an expert in marine data harmonisation and standardisation. Within MARIS he has gained extensive expertise in the development of complex data access systems, allowing users to find and retrieve data and information in an easy way.

Thierry Bidot (M) is a senior consultant at NEOVIA Innovation. He has over 30 years of experience in national and international high-tech projects and teams within French and US companies. He has been involved in more than 100 EU-funded projects and is an EU expert. He has a Master's in Numerical Analysis, used to teach Numerical Analysis in France (CNAM) and abroad and has published articles in the field of numerical simulation and high-performance computing. He is presently teaching a course of European innovation for Master's students at the University of Cergy-Pontoise in France. He was deeply involved in the initiatives EESI-1, EESI-2 and EXDCI-1 and is presently involved in EXDCI-2, as well as in the CEF AQMO & PHIDIAS projects.

Vincent Heurteaux (M) founded Geomatys, together with Martin Desruisseaux, in 2005, with the aim of promoting OGC standards and propose innovative and efficient tools to the geomatic world. In 10 years, they became editor of the Geotoolkit and Constellation suite. The company works on solutions able to collect, administer and style a heavy data load, collaborating with different kinds of industries and local communities.