Thomas Fiolleau

Thomas Fiolleau received the Ph.D. degree from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, in 2010 with a thesis on the use of satellite observation to study mesoscale convective systems in the framework of the Megha-Tropiques Indo–French Satellite Mission. He was an Associate Engineer with the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), Paris, for two years. He worked as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Consultant with the Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais (CEMADEN), Brazil, a Brazilian operational center, where he worked on the development of operational algorithms to forecast convective systems. After two years at CNRM (joint laboratory between CNRS and Météo-France), he joined the CNRS in 2016 as a Research Engineer with the Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géographie et Océanographie Spatiales, Toulouse, France. His areas of specialization are remote sensing, image processing, tropical climate and meteorology, and his researches interests are focused on the development of cloud tracking algorithms from geostationary satellites and the study of the life cycle of tropical mesoscale convective systems by using satellite observations.