CNRS Research Scientist · LOCIE
I am a CNRS research scientist at LOCIE, Université Savoie Mont Blanc. I study how solar energy can be integrated into buildings, cities and territories — from the air moving behind a ventilated façade to the question, at the scale of an agglomeration, of which roofs should be equipped first.
I defended my habilitation (HDR) at Université Savoie Mont Blanc, on modelling, analysing and integrating solar energy in territories. It draws together ten years of work, from the air moving behind a ventilated façade to the question of which roofs a whole agglomeration should equip first.
Guillaume Le Gall's work on higher-order orthogonal decomposition of shortwave radiation in urban contexts is out in the International Journal of Thermal Sciences.
Our building-wise detection of rooftop photovoltaic systems across heterogeneous French urban and rural territories is published in Applied Energy.
Mapping where solar energy can realistically be produced across a whole city or region, and turning that map into something planners can actually use.
Read moreSolar potential is only one criterion among many. This work builds the methods that let a city decide which roofs to equip first, and why.
Read moreThree-dimensional urban geometry makes incident solar radiation vary across many spatial and temporal scales at once. Describing that variability compactly is a hard and useful problem.
Read moreA photovoltaic module in a dense, warm city does not behave like the same module on a test bench. Quantifying that gap matters for anyone sizing an urban installation.
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