Didier GEORGES

Full Professor (PREX2)

Research Areas: optimal control and observation of distributed systems, optimal sensor placement; applications to power grids and environmental & anthropogenic systems, risk observation/diagnosis, pandemic control models, hazard  monitoring, Physics-Informed Machine Learning.

Teaching Areas: control of dynamic systems, modeling for control (Grenoble INP/University of Grenoble Alpes – ENSE3/PHELMA); optimal control of systems governed by partial differential equations (MISCIT Master’s Program, University of Grenoble Alpes/UFR PhiTEM)

Professional Experience:

From July 2022 to August 2026: Co-Scientific Director of the “IRiMa” Priority Research Program and Facilities (Integrated Risk Management for More Resilient Societies in the Era of Global Change), led by BRGM, CNRS, and UGA; funding: ANR-PIA4 France 2030, https://www.pepr-risques.fr/en 

January 2018–December 2021: Principal Investigator of the interdisciplinary RISK@Univ. Grenoble Alpes project (a systems-based approach to risk management, involving 15 laboratories, 100 researchers, and 11 funded Ph.D. students), supported by the IDEX program at Univ. Grenoble Alpes, https://risk.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

2015–2016: Vice President of the National Network of Doctoral Colleges

2014–2016: Director of the Doctoral College of the Université Grenoble Alpes (3,700 doctoral students, 14 doctoral schools)

2008–2012: Vice President for Research – Grenoble INP, President of GIS GRAAL (interuniversity project for a laboratory information system, AMUE)

2007–2008: Vice President of the Board – INP Grenoble

2007–2009: Associate Director of GIPSA-lab (UMR CNRS/UGA 5216), Head of the Control Systems Department (formerly UMR Laboratoire d’Automatique de Grenoble)

2003–2020: Member of IFAC Technical Committee 6.3 “Power Plants and Power Systems”

2001–2002: Director of the Laboratory for Systems Design and Integration (LCIS, EA 3747), Valence, France

From September 1998: Professor at Grenoble INP – ESISAR, later ENSE3

1995–1998: Associate Professor at Grenoble INP – ESISAR

1992–1995: Associate Professor at the Institut Supérieur d’Automatique et de Robotique (ISAR), Valence / Grenoble Automation Laboratory, France

1990–1992: Research Engineer at Électricité de France (EDF/DER/Network Studies Department, Clamart, France)

1988–1990: Research Assistant at the École des Mines de Paris, Lecturer and Researcher at ESIEE Paris, Associate Professor at ENSTA

PhD supervision: https://theses.fr/032527608