Francois Lepage

Biography

  Francois graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Geologie (Nancy, France) in 2000, with an engineering diploma in geology. As part of the Gocad Research Group, he also completed a MSc degree and a PhD degree in geosciences from the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (Nancy, France), respectively in 2000 and 2003. Francois then briefly moved to the Institut Francais du Petrole before to join the Igeoss company in 2004, which was acquired by Schlumberger in 2010.       Here is the list of his previous positions:  - Structural Modeling Technical Lead, Schlumberger SIS (2010-2013)   - Software Director, Igeoss (2008-2010)  - Software Engineer, Igeoss (2004-2008)   - Post-Doctoral Researcher, French Petroleum Institute (2003-2004)  - Ph. D. Candidate, Gocad Research Group / Shell (2000-2003)     During his career, Francois has been actively involved in the development of many software packages, including research Gocad plugins (TGridLab, Kine3D v. 1) and commercial products like Dynel3D and Petrel Structural Framework (VBM). He has almost 15 years of experience in software development and his expertise is recognized in domains like unstructured mesh generation, micro- and macro-topological representations of geological objects, implicit surface modeling, and general computational geometry.  

Research Interest

 software packages for geology