Since Jan. 2022, I am senior researcher (directeur de recherche) at INRAE (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment) in the MISTEA (Mathematics, Informatics and STatistics for Environment and Agronomy) research unit. I was previously associate researcher at INRAE since Sept. 2020 and before (2010-2020) Assistant then Associate Professor (HDR) at University of Montpellier, France. I am still associated member of the Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics of Montpellier (LIRMM).

My research topics include ontologies, ontology repositories, ontology metadata, semantic data indexing and annotation, semantic Web, text mining, knowledge representation, knowledge graphs.

I lead the AgroPortal project, a repository of ontologies and vocabularies for agri-food ; this project, started in 2015, gathers several national research institutions (INRAE, CIRAD, IRD) but also involve important international organizations (FAO, CGIAR, HEU projects, RDA AgriSemantics, GO FAIR Food System IN). I also collaborate on ontology repositories with Stanford, LifeWatch and others in the context of the OntoPortal Alliance.

Since June 2019, I am the principal investigator of ANR project D2KAB (Data to Knowledge in Agronomy and Biodiversity). D2KAB is a 4-year, 12 partners, 35 people, 950K€ (without salaries) multidisciplinary project which objective is to create a framework to turn agronomy and biodiversity data into knowledge –semantically described, interoperable, actionable, open– and investigate scientific methods and tools to exploit this knowledge for applications in science & agriculture.

From 2013 to 2019, I was the principal investigator of the SIFR project (Semantic Indexing of French Biomedical Data Resources) interested in designing ontology-based services first for French biomedicine but also in agronomy. The project was mainly funded by the French ANR Young Researcher –JCJC– program and the H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie program. I was also the co-PI of ANR PractiKPharma project (Practice-based evidences for actioning Knowledge in Pharmacogenomics) working on semantic annotation of French clinical notes with terminologies and ontologies to encode pharmacogenomics relations (disease-gene profile-adverse effect).

From 2015 to 2018, I was a visiting scholar (H2020 Marie-Skłodowska Curie fellow) at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) within Pr. Mark A. Musen's group.

From 2007 to 2010, I also served I served as a postdoc in the same lab, where I was working closely with Pr. Nigam H. Shah, on semantic annotations of biomedical data using biomedical ontologies in the context of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) project. I contributed actively to the design, evolution and development of the NCBO BioPortal, an ontology repository widely used in the biomedical community.

I have 9 years of various academic teaching (~1400h ~TD) to different kind of students of mixed levels. At Polytech, I have taught programming, computer architecture, web applications, semantic web to engineer students.

I aught Informatics at the Polytech Montpellier Engineering School. In 2012, I uploaded a course called "Internet Application and Interoperability (AIOP)" on iTunesU.

I was also interested in the use of ICT in Education and especially the use of iPads within the classroom. I was the representative for Polytech Montpellier Information and Communication Technologies in Education (TICE). I co-chair the “return of experience” track of TICE 2014.

• Co-head of Informatics Axe within MISTEA.
• Previous co-head of FADO research group at LIRMM with Pr. A. Laurent. 
• Organizer of the Web Science Montpellier Meetup and the AgroHackathon series.
• Member of several workshop and conference program committees related to life sciences and informatics. 
• Local chair of ESWC 2013, program co-chair of S4BIODIV 2013 & 2017 and TICE 2014.
• Member of the RDA Agrisemantics working group with the IG on agriculture data.
• Co-chair the "Ontology Metadata" task group of the RDA VSSIG working group.