Technical 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).

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.

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.

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.

Joël Sudre (M) is currently a French National Centre for Scientific (CNRS) Research Engineer at UMS 2013 CPST (Mixed Service Unit to support Data Terra French Research Infrastructure). He received his Ph.D. degree in physical oceanography from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, in 2013. He has authored and co-authored 46 publications in international peer-reviewed journals (http://www.researcherid.com/rid/G-9220-2018). His research interests include physical, dynamical, and biogeochemical oceanography, image processing for oceanographic studies, and in situ and satellite ocean observing systems. He is a technical representative of French Ocean Data Information and Service (ODATIS) and he is the technical coordinator of UMS2013 CPST.

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.