Sima Saadi is defending her PhD thesis on april 19th, at 9 am In ThéMA main meeting room, 4 Boulevard Gabriel, 21000 Dijon. This thesis was directed by Jean-Philippe Antoni, Geographer, University Professor, at the University of Burgundy, and Co-directed by Hossein Karimzadeh, Urban planner, University Professor, at the University of Tabriz.   Defense jury : Dominique Badariotti, Professor, University of Strasbourg, France (President) Saeed Zanganeh Shahraki‬, Associate Professor,...

Claire Regnier is defending her PhD thesis the 14th december 2022 at 14 at the IRTS of Franche-Comté in Besançon.   This work was directed by Alexandre Moine, géographer, professor of University of Franche-Comté and Christian GUINCHARD, sociologist, Senior lecturer at the University of Franche-Comté.    Defense jury : Erwan Becquemie, Director General of Hygiène Sociale of Franche-Comté Olivier David, Professor, University of Rennes 2 Philippe Lyet, Sociologist,...

The defense will take place in Champs-sur-Marne at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (salle B203) on april the 1rst.   This work was directed by Alain L'Hostis and Pierre Frankhauser.Funding : Ecole des ponts ParisTech-ENPC / Efficacity-Institut de Recherche & Développement pour la Transition Énergétique de la Ville.   Defense jury : Alain L'HOSTIS, Senior researcher, University of Gustave Eiffel Pierre FRANKHAUSER, Emeritus professor, University of...

Cécile Tannier presents the Fractal model and its impact on how urban forms and spatial organisation are approached in urban studies and planning. Reflecting critically on scale invariance and optimality, she shows how and why fractal models enable us to better understand how space is organised through scales and how urban planning can modify this spatial organisation in a fractal manner, accounting for the effects of distance and scale dependence. See the video on the YouTube channel:...

The defense will take place the 7th december at 14:30  at the "Grand salon", UFR SLHS, 32 rue Megevand in Besancon. This work was co-directed by Jean-Christophe Foltête (ThéMA) and Stéphane Garnier (Biogéosciences). Funding: CIFRE thesis with the company ARP-Astrance, Paris   Defense jury Stéphanie Manel, Professor, EPHE, UMR CEFE, Montpellier Eric Petit, Director of Research, INRAE, UMR ESE, Rennes Laurence Després, Professor, Université Grenoble Alpes, UMR LECA,...

When new lifestyles disrupt daily mobility in England   By exploring data relating to England from the UK National Travel Survey between 2002 and 2017, this research led by Benjamin Motte-Baumvol was able to refine the analysis of daily mobility usually carried out in France (where surveys are based on one “typical day”) by considering the variability of travel over a whole week, which reflects our increasingly fragmented lives more authentically. Thanks to new “remote” practices...

The defense will take place in Dijon at the University of Burgundy on december 14th   This work was directed by Thomas Thevenin, Associate researcher "HDR" ThéMA and Yves Richard, Associate researcher "HDR", Biogéoscience-CRC. The defense can be followed online by : http://desktop.visio.renater.fr/scopia?ID=727610***8300&autojoin Code d'accès : 8300 (terminer par #)   Defense jury Houet Thomas, Director of Research "HDR" CNRS, LETG, Rennes Masson Valéry, ...

François Sémécurbe is denfending his PhD thesis : Analysis of the spatial distribution of human settlements : Contributions and limitations of multi-scale and trans-scale indicators   The defense will take place in Besançon at the University of Franche-Comté at Salon Préclin, UFR SLHS on september 25th at 2 pm.   This work was directed by Cécile Tannier, Senior researcher at CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research).   Defense jury Elsa Arcaute - Associate...

Jean Houssemand is defending his PhD thesis : Conceptualization and evaluation of a typology of vertical housing concept for sustainable urban planning   The defense will take place in Dijon at the University of Burgundia at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Salle des Thèses (6 Esplanade Erasme), on february 14th at 14pm.   This work was directed by Jean-Philippe Antoni, Professor at the University of Burgundy, laboratory ThéMA.   Defense jury Denis Bocquet, Professor...

Seydou Ba is defending his PhD thesis : The issue of viability and socio-economic development in institutional territories facing administrative divisions in Senegal   The defense will take place in Besançon at the Salon Preclin, UFR SLHS on decembre 16th at 10am. This work was directed by Alexandre Moine, Professor at the University of Franche-Comté, laboratory ThéMA.   Defense jury Frédéric Giraut, Professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland Jean-Christophe Gay,...