About Me

I am a professor of marine ecology and data sciences at the Complexys and Biosciences Institutes, University of Mons (UMONS), Belgium. My research interests include coral ecophysiology, artificial reef mesocosms, automatic identification of plankton images, growth models (see my Ph.D. thesis), machine learning algorithms, evolution and ecology of open source software. I lead the Numerical Ecology of Aquatic Systems unit, which studies coral and plankton, and develops software for the ecologist.

I teach the whole curriculum of data sciences to students in biology at the Faculty of Science at UMONS where we emphasize the importance of good practice for reproducible research and open science. I am also in charge of the courses in marine ecology, ecophysiology, oceanography, and aquariology at UMONS.

I am a creative person who spends a lot of time thinking about (new) ways to solve problems. I like to dig in data with my favorite environment: a customised R session (I also maintain more than a dozen R package on CRAN and elsewhere). I am convinced that Science has to be Open and Reproducible, and the scientific community is slowly transiting in that direction. I use R, R Studio, the tidyverse, Git, Github and Travis-CI, plus the SciViews Box, as means to do reproducible research.

When I am not working, you can find me in my garden, or on a yoga mat. I am married to a wonderful and bright italian girl and I have a boy that happens to be equally creative (more in art than in science) and as technology addict as me. I also like photography, scuba diving, Indian or Japanese cooking, cartoons, good but healthy food, beer, wine, green tea and many, many more...

I am a teaching instructor for the following courses at the Faculty of Science at the University of Mons, Belgium:

• US-B2-SCBIOL-006-M: Data Sciences I: Visualisation and Inference
• US-B3-SCBIOL-015-M: Data Sciences II: Analysis and Modelling
• US-M1-BIOECO-004-M: Data Science III: Exploration and Prediction
• US-M2-BBMCFA-039-M: Data Science IV: Practice
• US-M2-BBMCFA-037-M: Data Science V: Reproducible Research
• US-B3-SCBIOL-008-M: Marine Ecology
• US-M1-BIOECO-030-M: Ecophysiology of Aquatic Animals
• US-M1-BIOECO-031-M: Artificial Mesocosms and Aquatic Ecosystems
• US-M1-BIOECO-056-M: General Oceanography
• US-M1-BIOECO-038-M: Macro- and Micro-Biological Treatment, Photography and Image Analysis (partim)
• US-M1-BIOECO-002-M: Scientific Workshop Training - Poster Session (partim)
• US-M2-BIOEFAL-004-M: Scientific Workshop Training - Conferences (partim)

• Philippe.Grosjean@umons.ac.be
• +32/065.37.34.97
• phgrosjean
• Plaine de Nimy/Pentagone 3D, 8 avenue du champ de mars, 7000 Mons, Belgium
• Monday to Friday 08:00 to 16:00 or email for appointment