Christophe Pradal

• Researcher at Cirad in Plant Modelling and Computer Science
• Inria/Cirad/Inra project Virtual Plants
• Address:
  • CIRAD / UMR DAP, Avenue Agropolis, TA 40/02,
  • 34398 Montpellier, France
  • Tel: 33 (0)4 67 61 75 63 Fax: 33 (0)4 67 61 56 68
  • email:christophe dot pradal at cirad dot fr

• OpenALEA: a scalable, modular and open software platform for plant modeling and simulation
• V-Plants: software components of the Virtual Plant team (evolution of AMAPmod)

• Highly reusable component based architecture
• Communication between heterogeneous components (C, C++, Fortran, Python)
• OpenSource software development process and eXtrem Programing (XP)
• Quality assurance (Test, Documentation, GUI, …)

• Multiscale plant geometry and topology
• Scientific visualisation and computer graphics
• Geometrical surfaces and operators (Sweep, Nurbs, IFS, …)

• Computer graphics and geometrical modeling
• Multiscale data-structures and algorithms
• Component based architecture for plant modeling
• Open source software and quality assurance

• Project leader of the OpenALEA platform.
• Key developper of V-Plants components.

• Yearly one-week training session on ALEA, a plateform for plant modelling.

http://www.cirad.fr/presentation/programmes/amap/formation/ecol.html.