1992--1996: Ph.D student in the EPIDAURE Project.

The topic of the thesis deals with the development of a method to build automatically morphometrical atlases from 3D medical images. The Ph.D. has been obtained in December 1998 with honours.

April 1996: Post-doctoral stay in Guy's Hospital, London (UK).

This one month and a half stay in the Neurology Department aimed to develop methods to evaluate the accuracy of medical images registration in collaboration with Dr. Alan Colchester (see reference [I12] in bibliography).

1996--today: Expert Engineer in the EPIDAURE Project

- Research activities

- development of new algorithms for the registration and the morphometrical study of anatomical structures (see Research topics).
- supervision of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students.
- invited lecturer at the Ph.D. School/Workshop in Shape Variation organized by the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) in August 1998.
- invited participant at the French-Japanese symposium Virtual Reality: sociological and technological impact that held near Tokyo in December 1999: presentation of the medical applications of Virtual Reality.
- co-editor of the special issue Signal Processing & Virtual Reality of the journal Traitement du Signal that will be published in 1999.
- reviewer for international and national conferences (ECCV'94, ICPR'94, RFIA'94, CVRMed'95, ECCV'96, MMBIA'96, VBC'96, RFIA'96, CVPR'97, CVRMed/MRCAS'97, IPMI'97, ICCV'98, MB3IA'98, MICCAI'98, ICCV'99) and journals (IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, NeuroImage, Traitement du Signal).

- Cooordination of Europe Community funded and industrial collaborations

- coordination of the research activities in relation with the European Research Project BIOMORPH that deals with the development of new computer tools to perform morphometrical analysis of the brain, in particular for the study of multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia.
- contribution to the redaction of the proposition of European Research Project QAMRIC (Quantitative Analysis of MR Scans in Creutzfeldt-Jakob). Scientific preparation of the Project that began in November 1998. Coordination of the research activities and development of the Web site.
- coordination of the industrial research contract with the drug company Sanofi Recherche (Montpellier, France). Edition of the final report. Proposition of a new contract that will begin in 1999.
- coordination of the industrial research contract with INSERM/la Salpétrière Hospital (Paris, France) and the medical technology company Medtronic that began in September 1998.

- Research animation

- co-organization of the international workshop IEEE Model-Based 3D Image Analysis (MB3IA) associated with ICCV'98 that was held in January 1998 in Mumbai (India). Planning of the budget, management of the Web site. Co-editor of the proceedings with an international reviewer committee.
- animation of the Working Group Virtual Reality (PRC ALP-AFIG, I3, ISIS - CNRS / Ministry of Education, Research and Technology) since 1994. Edition of the electronic information letter REVERIES (83 issues, 150 subscribers).
- co-organisation of the International Scientific Workshop of the Laval International Virtual Reality Meeting that will be held in June 1999. The topic is Virtual Reality and Prototyping.
- co-organisation of the workshops of the Working Group Virtual Reality: April 1994 (20 participants), July 1994 (42 participants), February 1995 (66 participants), January 1996 (46 participants), October 1996 (48 participants), March 1998 (110 participants). Co-editor of the proceedings for the 5^th and 6^th workshops.