French Team

University of Tours

Mathilde Gralepois

Assistant professor, School of engineering, Spatial Planning and Environment

Mathilde is an assistant professor on urban planning at the School of engineering, spatial planning and environment, at the University of Tours, where she is also member of the Cities, Territories, Environment and Societies research centre (CITERES). Her lectures concern urban planning, risk management policies, and French institutions system. Since 2017 she takes on the external partnership coordination of the Department of planning and environment, as well of the digital and multimedia pedagogy. She is an elected member of the executive board of the University. Her main research topics include flood management regulations in urban spaces, risk governance in Europe and France, social vulnerability and adaptation strategies to manage flood hazard dynamics.

Jerôme Cardinal

Phd candidate, CITERES research centre

Jerôme joined Cities, Territories, Environment and Societies research centre (CITERES) as a Phd candidate in 2020. His thesis analyses distributive and spatial effects of ACC policies in a context of flood risk management. Before, he realized several research missions related to environmental topics. From 2019 to 2020, he was a research assistant at the University of Lille in a research project on the governance of marine spaces. He also worked as a research assistant in l’Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI), a think-tank linked to Sciences Po Paris, on the governance of the French dairy sector (2018-2019). He received his Master’s degrees on political science from the University of Sciences Po Rennes and from the agronomy University AgroParisTecch

Sofia Guevara Viquez

Research Fellow, CITERES research centre

In December 2020 Sofia obtained her PhD in urban planning from the Gustave Eiffel University in Paris. In her thesis, she analysed risk management committees which were created to encourage citizen participation in risk management policies in Costa Rica’s capital, San Jose. She studied the interactions between inhabitants and local authorities within these committees in two case studies. Before, Sofia worked in a French research project, at the University of Tours, about urban projects in flood-prone areas (2014). The purpose was to study how city planners handle practical barriers in risk management solutions. She received her Master’s degrees on political science from the University of Sciences Po Rennes and on social science from the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (CNAM)

Marie Fournier

Assistant Professor, Geomatics and Land Management Research Center

Marie is an assistant professor in spatial and urban planning at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, where she is also a member of the Geomatics and Land Management research Centre. Her PhD (2010) focused on public participation in flood risk management policies on the Loire River basin. She was involved in 2 European research projects: FP7 STARFLOOD and JPI Climate 2013 TRANSADAPT. She also participated in research projects focusing on the implementation of river and wetland management policies in France. Her main research topics include local governance, institutional arrangements and land use regulations in wetlands, flood management and adaptation policies in France and Europe. She is a member of the European Long Term Environmental Research "Zone Atelier Loire".

Maylis Desrousseaux

Assistant professor, Geomatics and Land Management Research Center

Maylis is an assistant professor in environmental law at the Higher School of Surveyors and Topographers at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts. She holds a PhD in public law from University of Lyon 3 (2014). For several years, her research has been related to the perception of soil by law, nationally and internationally. These reflections led her to question the notion of the common good, confronted with various regimes of land ownership. By extension, her works address various issues such as agriculture, biodiversity protection and environmental governance. She is a board member of the European section of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB), and participate to the International Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Nathalie Thommeret

Assistant professor, Geomatics and Land Management Research Center

Nathalie is an assistant professor in geomatics at the Higher School of Surveyors and Topographers at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts. She received a PhD in Geography University from University of Paris 1 in 2012. Her research mainly deals with the development of tools using GIS and data analysis to characterize spatial phenomena for various applications (mainly in riverine environments). She contributes in particular to a national tool for assessing the hydromorphological quality of rivers. In SOLARIS, Nathalie Thommeret will mainly contribute to WP1 (Conceptual framework) and WP2 (Case study Analysis).

University of Paris-Est Creteil

Corinne Larrue

Full professor, Paris School of Urban Planning (EUP), Lab’Urba Research Centre

Corinne works as a professor at the Paris School of Urban Planning, where she took on the direction position from 2014 to 2018. She is a member of Lab’Urba research centre. Before, she was a professor at the University of Tours (1991-2013), teaching public policy analysis and environmental management strategies. She took on the direction of the Ecological engineering and Sustainable management of Freshwater Systems Department (2008-2013), and the Direction of the CITERES Research Centre (2008-2011) both within University of Tours. She is presently a member of the Ecologic Transition Committee and of the Regional Environmental Authority Commission for the Centre Val de Loire Region. Her main research topics include environmental policies, territorial governance and climate change.

Camille Gardesse

Assistant professor, Paris School of Urban Planning (EUP), Lab’Urba Research Centre

Camille is an assistant professor in urban planning and sociology at the Paris School of Urban Planning, a member of Lab’Urba research centre and a research fellow at the Institut Convergences Migration. Her PhD (2011) analyzed citizen participation during the urban redevelopment of the central district Les Halles in Paris. She works as well on notions of poverty, discriminations and minorities in urban areas with a focus on exiles arrived in France. Her research involves the analysis of french migration policies (and the irruption of new stakeholders in French migration governance), and their effects on exiles trajectories and residential experiences. She works on different urban scales: she has conducted fieldworks in Paris and in small and medium-sized cities.