Michel Dabas

**MICHEL DABAS** Position **CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris** Address **UMR 8546** **Archéologie et Philologie d’Orient et d’Occident (AOrOc)** 45, rue d’Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex05 Tel. + 33 (0)1 44 32 37 80 [michel.dabas@ens.psl.eu](mailto:michel.dabas@ens.fr) Born 03/31/1961 – Married – 2 children - French Areas of Expertise Follow-up of complex R&D projects Design of embedded geophysical sensors Follow-up of software developments ( GPS, GIS, Web-GIS) Many publications and patent for the measurement of electrical resistivity of soils Past positions **August 85**: Direction of a geophysical team for the survey of Vigna Barberini, Roman forum, **Ecole Française de Rome** **Feb. 87-88**: **Military Service**: Head of a research team in multivariate statistics applied to the elaboration and validation of psychological tests **Jan. 89 to May 89**: University of **Bradford** (UK) with a Royal Society Grant **October 89**: Research position at **GEODIA** (IFP subsidiary, Paris): Head of a development team in high resolution marine refraction **Feb. 91**: Research position at **CNRS** section 31, Garchy **Jan. 97**: Research position at CNRS, UMR7619, **Paris VI University** **Jan. 02**: Setup of a spinoff: **GEOCARTA SA.**, Scientific Director **Dec. 16 -**: Senior Researcher CNRS, **ENS** Diploma 1989: **PhD** CNRS « Magnetic behaviour of soils in the frequency and time domain. Application for surveying archaeological sites », CRG Garchy (France) and Univ. of Bradford (UK) 1985: **DEA** in Geophysics – Strasbourg ULP, «Study of Seabeam, pinger and photographs taken over the East Indian ridge» 1984 : **Engineer** in Geophysics, **EOST**- Strasbourg « Use of Seasat Altimetric data, creation of an isostatic model for the computation of geoid anomalies over subduction zones in the Pacific ocean » 1983: **Maîtrise** of Geology option Geophysics, EOST, Strasbourg 1982: **Licence** of Geology, option Geophysics, EOST, Strasbourg 1981: **DEUG**, University Paris VI, Paris Membership Distinctions/ Today position Member of SEG, EEGS, ISAP, GMPCA, AFT Prix Y. Rocard 2002 (French Society of Physics) Full-time researcher CNRS – UMR 8546 Teaching Ecole d’Architecture de Versailles (ENSA-V), Paris IV, ENS CNRS (1991-2001) Fields of research : \- Urban Archaeology: detection of buried structures with combined use of GPS and ES surveys (Chartres, Varsovie, St Germain d’Auxerre, Alexandrie, Louxor, Wroxeter, Bastia, Gérone, and Cagliari) \- Land management: Detection of archaeological risk over wide areas ( > 100ha): motorway projects (A77, A89, A66b) \- Paleometallurgy : Mapping the extension of sites and within-site characterization (Pampailly, Brévon, Les Clérimois, Milanowek, and Ste Marie aux Mines) \- Landscape Archaeology: GIS integration for land management and wide settlements \- Soil Science : predictive modelling (Beauce area, INRA) Geocarta (2002-2016) Scientific leadership for soil analysis in Archaeology, Agriculture, Viticulture and Land development Industrial development of the ARP® system for electrical soil mapping since 2001 Industrial development of the AMP system for soil magnetic mapping since 2006 Industrial development of the EMP system for soil EM mapping since 2011 Monitoring of IT projects : Real-time GIS for data acquisition and visualization (GC-Office), dGPS navigation software (SnailNav for IDS, Italy), set up of web-platforms : Chronocarto with ENS Paris, SIGPCM in Morocco for UNESCO, four projects for leaf monitoring in Agriculture (Force-A, Orsay), GCserver project for ENS and Geocarta, Project “Atlas Age du Fer” for ENS Follow-up of 190 field works; 646 reports (475 in Archaeology) Scientific publications with reading committee : 41 (2002-2016) Symposium with oral/poster presentation 79 (2002-2016) Research programs: 5 = Co-compostage et résistance des sols à la compaction (ENITA CEMAGREF ADEME), Méthodes croisées de recherche de fuites dans les couvertures de centres d’enfouissement technique GEOCET (ADEME, HYDRO INVEST, EAU GEO, Univ. Bordeaux labo GHYMAC), Prise en compte du sous-sol dans le développement durable (Projet ANR Ville durable -D2SOU), ANR Celtecophys Economie à l’époque celtique (ENS- Paris VI- INRAP), Projet MAPX (confidential project, EDF). 2017- CNRS-UMR8546 ENS Paris : development of web-GIS platform Chronocarto.eu / Urban geophysics ( GPR and Electrostatic). Habilitation : 2018 Directeur de Recherche CNRS: 2019