Christian Seigneur is an expert in air pollution. He was a professor at École nationale des ponts et chaussées (now part of Institut Polytechnique de Paris) from 2010 to 2019 and was the director of the Atmospheric Environment Center (https://cerea-lab.fr), a joint laboratory of École nationale des ponts et chaussées and the R&D branch of EDF, a French Energy Group, from 2008 to 2017. Previously, he was vice president at Atmospheric & Environmental Research, Inc. (AER) in the San Francisco Bay Area, California (1996-2008). From 1979 to 1996, he held various technical and management positions in consulting and engineering firms. He has participated in several scientific committees on air pollution issues. In particular, he was a member of committees that advise the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for air quality regulations and research priorities. He was also a member of the air pollution expert committee of the French Agency for Health & Safety (ANSES). He received his M.S. from the Paris Institute of Chemistry (Chimie ParisTech - PSL) and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Teaching
Teaching covers all aspects of air pollution, including air pollutant emissions, emission control technologies, atmospheric chemistry and physics, health effects, environmental impacts, regulations, and public policy.
École nationale des ponts et chaussées, Champs-sur-Marne: Graduate course titled "Atmospheric environment and air quality"; Graduate seminar titled "Background pollutions".
University of Paris, Graduate courses titled "Impacts and regulations of air pollution" and "Modeling of atmospheric particles" (Master degree in Environmental Science & Engineering).
École Centrale, Nantes: Graduate course titled "Chemistry of Air Pollution" (Master degree in Science and Technology of the Urban Environment).
Institut Mines Télécom Atlantique, Nantes: Graduate course titled "Atmospheric dispersion" (Master degree in Project Management in Environmental and Energy Engineering).
Book
Air Pollution - Concepts, Theory, and Applications, 374 pp., Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Research
Research focused mostly on the development of mathematical models (and the associated computer software) to simulate air pollution.
Author or co-author of over 180 publications in scientific journals and books on air pollution, risk assessment, and environmental contamination.
Author or co-author of over 300 presentations at technical conferences.
Advisor of 11 Ph.D. theses.
Curriculum Vitae