About Julien

Julien works for IRD (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development) since 2008 as an IT research engineer. He's located in Sète, hosted by and working with Ifremer marine laboratory in the wider context of MARBEC mixed research unit (which also includes CNRS and Montpellier University). The focus of his work is the interoperability of information systems to improve (spatial) data management on marine ecosystems (biodiversity or ecological observations and related environmental parameters). He is working on methods to implement FAIR Data Management Plans by using R programming language to comply with widely used standards for data interoperability. He is a representative of IRD (member of the board) as a partner in the framework of ongoing AQUARIUS and Blue Cloud 2026 HORIZON projects and was also during previous G2OI (ERDF INTERREG), Blue-Cloud (H2020), iMarine (FP7), BlueBRIDGE (H2020) European research projects, OpenAIRE-Connect H2020 projects, and a grant from RDA EU 4.0 H2020 project ("ambassador" for marine domain). Orcid.