Carole Delenne

Carole Delenne is currently associated professor at Aix Marseille University (Polytech Marseille / IUSTI). She was at the University of Montpellier from 2008 to 2024 and obtained the Habilitation to Direct Researches in 2014. She co-authored more than 30 publications in international journals and participated to 80+ international conferences. She co-supervised 6 doctoral thesis (2 in progress) and 20+ master’s level internships, and was responsible for an engineer for 20 months. She is responsible of several courses (approx. 300h/year) and co-directed a teaching department at Polytech Montpellier (Water and Civil Engineering) from 2014 to 2018. She is now responsible of the 4th year of the Civil Engineering department at Polytech Marseille.

In research, her areas of interest concern hydrodynamic modelling, model sensitivity analysis and the use of geographic data for calibration and validation of hydraulic models. She began to work on this latter field of research with the Cart’Eaux project, which she led in 2015-2018. In this project, a multidisciplinary team, including an industrial partner, developed a global methodology using Machine Learning and Data Mining approaches, applied to various types of large data, to recover information in the aim of mapping urban wastewater systems for hydraulic modelling. Several ANR and European projects followed this one, such as CROQUIS, Starwars, ATLAS, SWIFTS and LUCAS.

She co-supervised doctoral and postdoctoral students on data fusion for wastewater networks mapping, on data assimilation for the parametrisation of hydrodynamic models at large scales, and on the use of AI along with hydrodynamic model for flood prediction.