French partners (PI Thomas Corpetti)
USA partners (PI Heidi Brown)
Canadian partners (PI Michael Canva)

French Partners

FR1 : LETG, UMR CNRS 6554, Rennes (Littoral, Environment, Remote Sensing, Geoma- tics), Rennes

o Thomas Corpetti, DR CNRS, remote sensing, physical modelling for air temperature and pollution dispersion, artificial intelligence, image and signal processing 
o Vincent Dubreuil, Professor Univ. Rennes 2, urban heat island understanding and mo- delling 
o Solène Croci, CR CNRS, urban ecology
o Jean Nabucet, research engineer, urban vegetation modelling
o Hei-Taïna Marais, PhD student, 3D urban vegetation analysis
o Charlotte Brabant, post-doc, urban climatology
o Patricia Houngan, (PhD student in sept. 2025), urban vegetation analysis

FR2 : IRSET, (Institut de recherche en santé, environnement et travail), Univ Rennes, In- serm, EHESP - UMR_S 1085), Rennes

Candide Lissak, associate professor Univ. Rennes, environmental health, risks, geography 
o Cécile Chevrier, DR INSERM, environmental health for pregnent & child populations 
o Tarik Benmarhnia, professor, climate & health
o Bénédicte Jacquemin, DR INSERM, urban health
o Noémie Letellier, post-doc, environmental health, health inequalities

FR3 : LMFA, Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d’Acoustique, Lyon, UMR 5509 

o Pietro Salizzoni, professor, pollutant measurement and dispersion
o Lionel Soulhac, associate professor, urban pollutant dispersion
o Nicolas Rivière, professor, urban floods modeling o Emmanuel Mignot , associate professor, urban floods modeling
o One post-doc to hire, pollution dispersion, cf https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR5509-MARPAI-004/Default.aspx

FR4 : ESPACE, Étude des Structures, des Processus d’Adaptation et des Changements de l’Espace, UMR 7300 CNRS, Nice

o Dennis Fox, professor, urban geography, urban floods, urban heat islands
o Nicolas Viaux, associate professor, urban climate & pollution
o Mathilde Puche, PhD student, urban flood modeling
o Emmanuel Garbolino, senior researcher (now at Mines Paris PSL but associated with ESPACE)

FR5 : IMS, Laboratoire Intégration du Matériau au Système, UMR 5218, Bordeaux

o Laurent Bechou, professor, integrated photonics/optronics, durability and reliability 
o Laurent Oyhenart, associate professor, sensors modelization and characterization, measurements automatization
o Pauline Girault, post-doc, sensor design, fabrication and characterization

FR6 : ICMCB, Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux, UMR CNRS 5026, Bordeaux

o Lionel Canioni, professor, laser-writing process management
o Bruno BOUSQUET, professor, high-resolution optical systems for sensing, data mana- gement
o Ribal BEYROUTI, PhD student (2023-2026), laser-writing process for integrated photo- nics, optical sensing 

USA partners


USA1 : The Arizona Institute for Resilience's Heat Resilience Initiative, Arizona University 


o Heidi Brown, professor, epidemiology & biostatistics
o Ladd Keith, associate professor, heat-related planning, policies and governance to strengthen community resilience to thermal extremes in a context of climate change.
o Anne-Lise Boyer, post-doctoral research associate, adaptation of cities to climate change

USA2 : Laboratoire iGlobes, IRL CNRS IRL 3157, Arizona University


o Sophie Didier, professor, deputy director Iglobes, urban planning and geography, spa- tial justice and equity, public policy deployment.
o Regis Ferrière, professor, director of IRC « France-Arizona Institute for Global Grand Challenges », mathematical modeling, adaptation to global changes 
o Louise Biville, PhD student, air quality measuring
o Alice Agblekey, PhD student, air quality and human exposure

USA3 : The Arizona Applied International Development Economics (AIDE) Lab, Arizona University


 o Anna Josephson, associate professor, co-director of AIDE Lab, Agriculture – Food Se- curity – Weather
o Jefferey D. Micheler, associate professor, co-director of AIDE-lab Agricultural Risk – Legal agreements – Rural Development

USA4 : The Arizona Health & Urban Modeling Lab, Arizona University


 o Chris Lim, assistant professor, Air Pollution – Health Disparities – Environmental Jus- tice
o Melissa Furlong, associate professor, Environmental Epidemiology – Pesticide Expo- sure – Neurological Health
o Miranda Loh, adjunct professor, Exposure Science – Air Pollution – Environmental Sensors
o Ashley Anne Lowe, assistant professor, Public Health Interventions – Pediatric Asthma – Implementation Science
o Mona Arora, assistant professor, Health Equity – Pandemic Response – Climate Change Adaptation
o Ian Estacio, post-doc, monitoring, analysis, and modeling of socio-ecological systems with remote sensing and GIS 

USA5 : The University of Arizona One Health initiative, Arizona University


o Frank A. von Hippel, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, director of the One Health initiative in UA
o Karla Ajoy Rendón, PhD student, mangrove pollution
o Anna Yunuen Soto Fernández, PhD student, pollution and public health
o Priscilla Valenzuela, PhD student, pollution and public health
o Maria Eugenia Sancho Santos, post-doc, pollution
o Sandra Rodriguez Quintana, post-doc, pollution projects in various geographical con- texts 

Canadian Partners



CAN1 : Laboratoire CARTEL : Centre d'applications et de recherches en télédétection

o Philippe Apparicio, professor, urban and human geography
o Yacine Bouroubi, professor, Image Processing – Remote Sensing – Artificial Intelli- gence
o Michael Germain, professor, Remote Sensing – Artificial Intelligence
o Elisabeth Levac, professor at Bishop University but associated with CARTEL, Environ- mental Health
o Jean Rouat, professor, associate with CARTEL, Computer Science and Statistics, Au- ditory System, Visual System
o Olivier Robin, professor, sensors, sound
o Frédéric Bouchard, climate change impacts, arctic tundra

CAN2 : Laboratoire LN2 (Laboratoire Nanotechnologies et Nanosystèmes), IRL CNRS 3463 

o Michael Canva, DR CNRS, plasmonics and sensor development
o sensor development
o Denis Machon, professor, sensors, energy o Thierry Courcier, engineer, sensors, modeling
o Frédéric Sarry, professor, sensors, opto-acoustic
o Ali Soltani, associate professor, sensors, electronics o Rémi Dreyfus, DR CNRS, sensors, chemistry
o Fabien Alibart, CR CNRS, sensors, IA
o Paul Charrette, professor, sensors, optics Canada : Université McGill et ÉTS Montréal

CAN3 : International Laboratory on Learning Systems (ILLS), IRL CNRS 2020

o Pablo Piantanida, DR CNRS, also associated with Institut québécois d'intelligence artificielle (Mila), Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, NLP o Clara Martinez (PhD start in oct. 2025)
o Jeremy Cooperstock, PR McGill University, signal processing
o Nicolas Thome, professor, computer vision
o Ricard Maxer, professor, signal processing Canada : Université de Laval

CAN4 : Laboratoire TAKUVIK (Laboratoire Nanotechnologies et Nanosystèmes), IRL CNRS 3376

o Julien Gigault, Professor, Nanoparticles, nanoplastics, nanosuies, characterization, impact, environment, mangroves 
o Emilie Saulnier-Talbot, professor, dynamic of aquatic ecosystems 
o Philippe Archambault, professor, marine biology and biodiversity 
o Anne-Sophie Cloutier, PhD student, biology, ecology
o Huiwen Cai, postdoc, environmental behaviors of nanoparticles