Laurent is senior researcher at ERPI (Research Team on innovative Processes, Université de Lorraine, France), lecturer at ENSGSI, in particular in charge of the Master 2 Urban Innovation course (IUVTT), and visiting lecturer at TELECOM Nancy (responsible for the "big data smart city" module).
He is the co-founder (2014) and scientific manager of the Lorraine Fab Living Lab® (www.LF2L.fr), the ERPI research platform for prospective assessment of innovative usages and innovation acceptability.
He is also the co-creator (2008) and scientific coordinator of Lorraine Smart Cities Living Lab (ENoLL member since 2010), an interdisciplinary project involving several laboratories and other public and private partners.
He designs, implements and evaluates new processes, based on collaborative innovation involving users, companies and territories, generating smart and sustainable Cities. E.g: Linkybymakers.fr project which explores the development of a user-driven innovation supporting the French public electricity distribution network and its smart meter.
Since 2019, he is involved in several H2020 UE projects: INEDIT project (Facory of the Future) as WP leader; SMAGRINET Project (Capacity Building) as ERPI team leader; Climate Labs as Living lab expert (Erasmus+)
L. Dupont is active member of:
- ICE / IEEE ITMC International Organizing Committee, International Conference on Technology, Engineering & Innovation. www.ice-conference.org (Since 2010)
- Research Network on Innovation (Since 2015)
He also invited chair at Laval Virtual / ConVRgence / VRIC - Virtual Reality International Conference (since 2017) https://www.laval-virtual.org/
Contact: l.dupont@univ-lorraine.fr