**Simona Niculescu**

Simona Niculescu received the PhD in geography-remote sensing from the Universite de ´ Paris IV-Sorbonne Paris, France, in 2002. In 2015 she obtained her degree of Habilitation of Research Direction (HDR) from the University of Sorbonne-Paris. Since 2005, she has been with the LETG-Geomer UMR 6554 CNRS Lab within the European Institute for Marine Studies, Brest, France. ´ Her research interests include coastal areas and coastal wetlands, focusing on methodologies for exploiting the opportunities provided by new satellite imagery and machine learning methodologies. She was awarded a European Jean Monnet Chair in 2018.
