About

Graduated from Ecole Centrale de Paris, Jean-Paul Chabard joined in 1984 the Research and Development Division of EDF as a researcher in Computational Fluid Dynamics. He was successively Director of the National Hydraulics Laboratory, the Thermal Transfer and Aerodynamics Department and the Modeling and Information Technology Division. He then held many other management positions within the research and development of EDF. More recently, he was Director for the creation and installation of a new research center of EDF on the Paris-Saclay Campus (more than 1000 people) and for the development of collaborations with French Academic Institutions. From April 2015 to July 2022, he was Scientific Director of the EDF Research and Development Division. He was professor in various French High Engineering Schools. He is currently Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. Jean Paul Chabard is very active in various French and International scientific societies. He is Honorary Member of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) where he served for 8 years as vice president. He is presently President of the the Société Hydrotechnique de France (SHF) who awarded him the Grand Prix of Hydrotechnics in 2006.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

NGOs and Associations

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Water sciences, Fluid mechanics, Thermal transfer, Numerical simulation

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