Philippe Pezard has a diploma of engineering from ESIM and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was a teaching researcher at IMT in Marseilles from 1990-1993. He created the Borehole Geo-physics and Hydro-dynamics Laboratory (LGHF,1992).  Pezard has served as Chairman of ODP Committee in France (2001-2005) and as the coordinator for the “ALIANCE” Project (EKV-2001-00039, 2002-2005) on the subject of hydrogeophysics survey on salt water intrusions in coastal areas. He has been working at CNRS since 1994 where he heads a Research department (Geo-sciences, Montpellier). He is a founding partner and currently works with imaGeau as part of imaGeau’s scientific partnership agreement with CNRS.