P. Lacroix
SENIOR LECTURER
Address: enviroSPACE Lab., University of Geneva, Boulevard Carl Vogt 66, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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Dr. Pierre Lacroix is a senior lecturer working at University of Geneva in the enviroSPACE laboratory (Institute for Environmental Sciences). He is also Head of Unit at the UNEP/GRID-Geneva.
He has worked in the private and public sectors, in France and in Switzerland, and has participated in nearly 40 research and international projects at different geographical scales, from local to international, and in different domains such as environmental monitoring and geospatial data platforms, sustainable development (including Mediterranean, African and global initiatives), biodiversity and peatland ecosystems, climate change adaptation, extractive industries transparency, water resources and transboundary basin management, disaster risk reduction, and humanitarian demining.
He obtained in 2013 his PhD in Environmental Sciences at University of Geneva for his research on the contribution of geographical information systems to humanitarian demining. He is also Geographer Engineer (French “Institut Géographique National”) and Civil Engineer (French “Ecole des Mines”). He has been working in Geographic Information Systems since 2000.
His research interests are: environmental modelling, interface between science and policy, spatial data infrastructure (SDI).
He is teaching GIS, SDI and programming at University of Geneva since 2009. Between 2001 and 2008 he has trained about 1'500 people on Esri/ArcGIS products and has trained military personel in cartography, topography and civics in France.