Summary
Sidonie Christophe is a senior researcher and geovisualization specialist with 12+ years at IGN and academic appointments, currently leading sustainable development research (DR1) at LaSTIG, Université Gustave Eiffel. She designs cartographic representations and interaction techniques to make spatio-temporal data perceptually and cognitively legible, bridging GIS, computer graphics, HCI and cognitive science. Her work spans map design, visual rendering, urban and climate visualization, and graphic semiotics to enable visual and non-visual spatial reasoning. A former GEOVIS team leader and lab co-director, she combines deep scientific rigor (HDR, PhD) with practical teaching and software-engineering roots in geomatics. Less obvious: her background as an agronomist-engineer and early hands-on GIS development informs a strong sensitivity to environmental and decarbonization issues in spatial research.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Université Gustave Eiffel
Ingénieur Agronome Traitement de l'Information Spatiale, Ingénieur Agronome Traitement de l'Information Spatiale at Ecole nationale supérieure d'agronomie de Rennes (ENSAR)
HDR Sciences de l'Information Géographique, HDR Sciences de l'Information Géographique at Université Paris-Est
PhD Sciences de l'Information Géographique, PhD Sciences de l'Information Géographique at Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée