Christophe Sannier

Christophe Sannier graduated in Land Resource Management at the French Institut- Supérieur des Techniques d'Outre-Mer (ISTOM) and holds an M.Sc. (1992) and Ph.D. (2000) in Applied Remote Sensing from Cranfield University. He undertook his national service as a volunteer for a rural development project in Burundi funded by the French government in 1989–1990. After some time spent at CEMAGREF in Montpellier as a research assistant (1992–1993), he was employed as a research officer in Cranfield University (1993–1997). He was appointed as a lecturer in 1997 until 2006. He has been a land resources monitoring specialist and head of Research and Development at SIRS since 2007. He is still a visiting fellow Cranfield University.