Dominique Darmendrail, Groundwater and global changes Programme Director at BRGM

About

Since September 2021, she is the Water and Global Changes Programme Director at BRGM.

From November 2014 to September 2020, she was the coordinator of the EU Water Joint Programming Initiative (www.waterjpi.eu), a network of research funding agencies which aims at increasing coordination in European research, development and innovation (RDI), and address issues such as user participation, attaining targets in the coordinated use of funds and progress in the integration of RDI agendas and activities. She also coordinated the Coordination and Support Actions IC4Water for the development of international cooperation in Research and Innovation in the Water area. She coordinated the preparation of the Horizon Europe Partnership Candidate Water4All – water security for the planet for Horizon Europe.

In July 2014, she become programme manager on Environmental technologies at the French Research Agency (ANR).

She holds a Doctorate on Hydrogeology and Hydrogeochemistry from the University of Bordeaux (France). She has been the Head of BRGM's Environment and Process Division from 1998 – 2007 and, from May 2010 to July 2014,   European Affairs representative within BRGM while being the secretary general of the Common Forum on Contaminated Land in Europe (www.commonforum.eu), European network of contaminated land policy experts and of the International Committee on Contaminated Land (www.iccl.ch). She has been a scientific advisor of several national, European and international working groups on contaminated sites Management (e.g. Metaleurop site commission, Tchernobyl Impact Commission) and of several European research projects (brownfields, remediation techniques, sustainable management of sites, risks to natural resources - HOMBRE, TIMBRE, NANOREM, IMAHg).

Industry experience

Education: PhD

Years of experience: 20 years or above

Work experience

• Groundwater and global changes Programme Director

  BRGM

  2020-10  - Present

• Scientific Advisor, Water JPI Coordinator

  Coordination of the network of a network of funding research and innovation agencies from 23 countries

  ANR - Agence Nationale de la Recherche

  2014-07  - 2020-09

Taxonomy

• Research Institute
• Public Private Partnerships in Water
• Publication
• Water Management & Security
• Technology & Solution Provider
• Research
• Environment
• Water Supply
• Natural Resource Management
• Groundwater Data Scientist