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, in the Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics of Montpellier (LIRMM).

My research topics include ontologies (and semantic artefacts in general), ontology repositories, semantic data indexing and annotation, semantic Web, text mining, knowledge representation, knowledge graphs... symbolic AI in general.

Since 2015, I lead the AgroPortal (https://agroportal.eu) project, a reference vocabularyand ontology repository for agri-food and co-lead the OntoPortalAlliance.

I am also involved in semantics related activities for the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), especially as WP-lead in the Horizon Europe FAIR-IMPACT project and participant of the FIDELIS project. And starting in 2026, three new EOSC related Horizon Europe projects: EOSC CONNECT, FLUID-AI and CDIF4EOSC. I also brings semantic interoperability expertise to the implementation of the Common European Agricultural Data Space (CEADS project) of the Digital Europe program.

From June 2019 to June 2024, I was the principal investigator of ANR project D2KAB (Data to Knowledge in Agronomy and Biodiversity). D2KAB was a 12 partners, 35 people, 950K€ (without salaries) multidisciplinary project which objective was 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.

I was also involved in two other ANR projects: FooSIN and DACE-DL now finished. And 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).

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-supervisor of the OntoPortal Alliance.
• Member and coordinator of the Informatics Axe at MISTEA.
• Previous associated member of WEB-CUBE team at LIRMM.
• 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.
• And more...