Professor of computer science at the Arts et Métiers Institute of
Technology and Naval Academy Research Institute. One of the deputy
directors of the ISblue Interdisciplinary Graduate School for the Blue
Planet involved in marine science, marine technology and ocean
innovation. He was a senior lecturer in computing at the Nottingham
Trent University and a senior scientist in GIS at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology. His research is oriented towards theoretical
and pluri-disciplinary aspects of geographical information science