Xavier Dérobert

Xavier Dérobert was born in Lyon, France, in 1963. He received the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetism from Lille University, Lille, France, in 1995, and the French Research Habilitation (Dsc.) from the University of Nantes, Nantes, France, in 2003. In 1987, he became a State Engineer in civil engineering and joined the Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (named French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR) since 2011), Nantes, as a Research Scientist. He was the Director of the “Assessment and Imaging” Laboratory from 2010 to end 2014. His research interests include the development of methodologies using radar techniques on civil infrastructures and subsurface geophysics, and particularly the electromagnetic characterization of bituminous and concrete mixing. Dr. Dérobert has organized three national workshops on ground-penetrating radar in 2001, 2003 and 2013, and coorganized the Non Destructive Testing in Civil Engineering (NDTCE’09) symposium and the international congress IWAGPR in 2013 in Nantes . He has more than 150 publications in peer-refereed journals, conference proceedings and technical reports. He served as Guest Editor for Special Issues on NDT in Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering and in Journal of Infrastructures and Systems in 2011, in Near Surface Geophysics in 2015, and currently in NDT&E Int 2016.