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Jonathan HESS

20 rue Vernier
06000 Nice, FRANCE
Tel : +33 (0)6 71 91 28 29
E-mail : jonathan.hess@sophia.inria.fr

French Nationality
3rd February 1982
Single
Have done my military service



Master's Degree in Engineering at ENSTA
Master's Degree in Biological Oceanography at Paris VI

PhD Student at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France


Objective: After a PhD on wastewater treatment by anaerobic digestion processes I would like to work in research on modelling and control of bioremediation

Summary
  • MSc in Biological Oceanology and Marine Environment: specialization in numerical simulation, modelling and data analysis
  • MSc in Engineering: solid background in Mathematics (systems control, optimization), Physics
Education
2004-2007 PhD University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France (www.unice.fr)
Funding: ADEME funding (the French Agency for Environment and Energy Management)
Laboratories: COMORE Project, INRIA (the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) and PEACE Group, INRA (the French National Institute for Agricultural Research)
Major: Systems control and signal processing
Specialization: Modelling and Control of the biogaz production by anaerobic digestion wastewater treatment processes
PhD Director: Olivier Bernard, and Jean-Philippe Steyer

2003-2004 MSc (DEA) University of Paris VI, France. (with honors)
Leading University in Paris (www.upmc.fr)
Major: Biological Oceanology and Marine Environment
Specialization: Numerical simulation, modelling and data analysis

Oct. 2004 MSc in Engineering (Diplôme d'Ingénieur), École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancéles.
Leading General Engineering School at Paris (www.ensta.fr)
Major: Environmental Sciences
Specialization: Oceanography
Relevant courses: biology, numerical simulation and modelling for environmental sciences, system control optimization, applied mathematics, biochemestry
Programming (C, Java, FORTRAN, HTML)

2001 BSc in Engineering, ENSTA

1999-2001 Classe Préparatoire, Lycée Chaptal, Paris, France
Two years intensive training in special scientific classes to prepare the high competitive nation wide exams to engineering schools. Ranked 224th out of 3000.

1999 Baccalauréat (specialization in mathematics). Graduated with honors.

1992-1996 Studies at the International School of Paris, English Section.

Professional Experience
February-July 2004 Intern, LOV (Oceanography Laboratory of Villefranche)-INRIA (The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control)-University of Essex, Biological Sciences Department, three months in Villefranche-sur-mer, France, and two months at the University of Essex, England
  • Compared two chemostat models of phytoplankton growth representing the simultaneous limitation by light and nutrients: had to set a general mathematical formulation of the models to test their stiffness and to see if their properties were intrinsic or not- compared them with several sets of data done in chemostat.
May-July 2003 Intern, LODYC (Oceanography and Climate Laboratory), Paris, France
  • Worked on a model of the biological growing activity at a front: added to a former coupled model average forcings such as wind stress, sst, salinity- compared the former and the new model.
July 2002 Intern, FORUM (design furniture seller for industry and firms), Saint-Denis, France
  • Worked as a storekeeper
  • Managed the warehouse
2001-2002 Tutor
  • Taught maths, physics and chemistry
  • Learned pedagogical tools to communicate better
Language
French: Native language
English: Fluent (TOEFL 267/330)
German: Proficient
Chinese: Basics 		Computer Skills
Systems: UNIX (Linux), Windows
Languages: C, HTML, JAVA, FORTRAN
Software: MS Office, Star Office, LateX
Computation: Matlab, Scilab, Maple, IDL

Other
Sport Practice of Scuba diving for 6 years (level CMAS**, preparing level ***), tennis
Fellowship experience
  • One year as the Treasurer of the sport Association
    • administered a budget of 50,000 euro
    • organized week-ends and trips for more than hundred students
    • organized international sport events for more than a thousand students
  • Two years in the Student union
    • organized monthly events for more than a thousand students
Jonathan Hess
Last modified: Wed Jan 12 17:07:45 MET 2005