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
o 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
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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-
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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