Academic Degree 2015 « Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches » from University of Grenoble AlpesFrench professorial accreditation 1999 Ph.D. in Sciences from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (MINES ParisTech) Real Time – Robotics – Automatic 1995 Master of advanced studies of the University of Rennes Signal, Telecommunications, Images and Radar (option Image) 1992 – 1995  Engineer of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne (Telecom Bretagne) Professional Experience Presently, MINES ParisTech: Professor, Head of research activities for Renewable Energy resource assessment -Center Observation, Impacts, Energy (www.oie.mines-paristech.fr) 2000 – 2007,Thales Alenia Space: research engineer in image processing Peer-reviewed papers (45+), communications (80+), patents (10) HAL: access to the publications Google Scholar: Index h : 15 http://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=l0tNZQcAAAAJ Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philippe_Blanc2