Academic positions

Feb. 2008: Professor in Urban and Regional Planning, Université de Tours, France.
Sept. 1997-Jan. 2008: Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning, Université de Tours, France.
Oct. 1994-Aug. 1997: Teaching assistant at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lille I, France. Research fellow at the Institut Fédératif de Recherches sur les Economies et les Sociétés Industrielles, Lille, France.
Oct. 1993- Sept. 1994: Junior research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, Great Britain.
Oct. 1992- Sept. 1993: Junior research fellow at the Institut Fédératif de Recherches sur les Economies et les Sociétés Industrielles, Lille, France.

Academic responsabilities

2015-: Head of the International Research Master ‘Planning and Sustainability’
2013-2016: Vice-President of Université de Tours, in charge of partnerships and research valorisation
2012-2017: Vice-Head of Maison des Sciences de l’Homme du Val de Loire, a federation of 14 research centres in the social sciences and humanities
2004-2008: Head of the Département Aménagement.

Scientific activities and responsabilities

At present
• Researcher at Cités, Territoires, Environnement et Sociétés (CITERES), a multidisciplinary laboratory of the University of Tours and of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
Organisation of conferences, sessions, seminars:
• Co-organizer of the special session The Geography Of New Working Spaces And Impact On The Periphery, Milan, Transdisciplinary Workplace Research, September 2022
Mandates :
• Coordinator of International academic working group ‘Small towns and metropolitan cores: towards cooperation? A European perspective’, Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung (2020-)
• Member of the Monitoring Committee of COST 18126 ‘Writing Urban Places. New Narratives of the European City’ (2019-)
• Deputy Member of the Monitoring Committee of COST 18214 ‘The Geography of New Working Spaces and the Impact on the Periphery’ (2019-)
Participations to research networks:
• Member of French and British Planning Study Group, AESOP Thematic Network (2010-)
• Member of European Urban Research Association (2014-)
• Member of Network-Association of European Researchers on Urbanisation in the South (2018-)

Member of editorial boards
• European Planning Studies (2012-)
• Revue internationale d’urbanisme (2011-)
• Transactions of AESOP (2016-)


Past activities
• Member of the Governing Council of Global Planning Education Associations Network (2012-2020)
• Member of International academic working group ‘Planning & Governing the Metropolis’, ARL (2016-2019)
• Chair of Association pour la Promotion de l’Enseignement et de la Recherche en Aménagement-Urbanisme (APERAU) (2012-2017)
• Elected member (for France) of the Council of representatives of Association of European Schools of Planning (1998-2002 and 2008-2012; 2006-2008: substitute)
• Co-Track Chair of Economic Development and Planning in Moments of Crisis, World Planning Schools Congress, Rio, July 2016
• Co-Track Chair of Comparative Development Planning, World Planning Schools Congress, Perth, 2011
• Organizer of the APERAU Annual Best Paper Prize in Planning (2008-2012).
• Member of the AESOP Best Paper Prize Committee (2011-2012)
• Member of the APERAU organization committee of the PhD on Cities Prize (2010-)
• Member of the forecasting group « Intermediary cities », Territoires 2040, DATAR (2009-)
• Scientific co-ordinator of the session The role of small and medium-sized towns as intermediary between rural desert and megapolis, IGU Congress, Cologne, August 2012 (with A. Obersteg)
• Co-Track Chair of the session « Regional Change and Resilience : Plans, Institutions and Concepts », AESOP Congress, Ankara, July 2012 (with Dominic Stead, TU Delft)
• Co-Track Chair of the session « Climate change and planning », AESOP Congress, Liverpool, 2009
• Member of the editorial board of Planning Theory and Practice (2006-12), Géographie, Economie, Société (1999-2003)
• Expertise of research projects for ANR (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016), Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (2011), Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (1996, 1999, 2014, 2017), Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique (2018, 2019), Programme Scientifique et Technologique Canadien (1997), Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (2016, 2017), Université Paris Est (2016), RechercheNet (2017), National Science Centre Poland (2020), Swiss National Science Foundation (2020)
• Referee of manuscripts for Cities, European Planning Studies, Journal of Place Management and Development, Moravian Geographical Report, Planning Theory and Practice, Town Planning Review, Planning Practice and Research, Transactions of AESOP ; Urbia, Géographie, Economie, Société, Cahiers Lillois d'Economie et de Sociologie, Développement durable et territoires, Justice Spatiale / Spatial Justice, Mondes en Développement, Population ; Revue d’économie régionale et urbaine ; Revue de la régulation ; Revue internationale d’urbanisme ; Territoire en mouvement…