Dominique LESSELIER
Dominique Lesselier, Fellow of The Institute of Physics, IEEE Life Senior Member, was born in Lons-le-Saunier, Jura, France, in August 1953. He received the Ingénieur degree from Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (Supélec), Paris, France, in June 1975, and the Doctorat d’Etat es Sciences Physiques degree from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, in March 1982. He has been with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Gif-sur-Yvette, France, since October 1981, and he is Director of Research CNRS Emeritus since Fall 1999, a position which was renewed for another five years in Fall 2024. He was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, from 1982 to 1983. He belongs to the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (L2S), CNRS, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette. As the Director (from 2006 to 2009) of the Groupement de Recherche CNRS “GDR Ondes,” he managed a network of scientists involved in the science of waves, and has been involved and is involved with the said GDR since its creation, at which he closely contributed, in 2002; in its name and on its behalf, for its 25th anniversary, he is to organize its 12th Plenary Conference in CentraleSupélec, Fall 2027. To note, he was a recipient of the R. W. P. King Award "given to an author under 36 years of age for the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation during the previous year", this was in October 1982. He is a member of the Electromagnetics Academy and of the International Union of Radio Science, Commission B. He has been on the International Advisory Panel of Inverse Problems (IoP) from 2005 to 2016, after serving on its Editorial Board from 1997 to 2004, and from 2003 to 2019, he was Associate Editor of Radio Science. From 1998 to 2025, he was on the Standing Committee of the Electromagnetic Non-Destructive Evaluation Workshop Series (ENDE) and the International Steering Committee of the International Symposia on Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics (ISEM), from which he received the ISEM Chair-Person Ship Award in 2005. His scientific activity pertains to the development and the analysis of solution methods involving electromagnetic, acoustic, and elastic wavefields, direct, and mostly now inversion and physical imaging, aiming at the characterization of complex structures ("objects") in complex environments ("configurations"), from mathematical theory to technological reality. Hot stuff in the above as of lately: deep learning, uncertainty quantification, multi-modality/physical data fusion, and if to recap: (i) imaging that combines physical understanding and intelligent algorithmics, (ii) mapping internal structure (artificial, natural, biological), detecting damage, describing disorganization, (iii) managing incomplete data in uncertain context, + designing sources/sensors, (iv) keeping strong linkage between computational approach & physics (including model choice), data processing (scarce, incomplete, noisy, erroneous, etc.), image construction algorithms, (v) confronting controlled-laboratory data on proper platforms & workpieces/bodies, (vi) integrating into software platforms (w. GPU, ...). Among an ample scientific dissemination that is provided in a file linked to this website, as well as his detailed CV and a more personal description of his family story and parcours, emphasize that he (co-) guest edited five Special Sections of the IoP top-notch Journal Inverse Problems, the last one in 2024, and several books, including as of lately, now within The Sciences Encyclopedia, ISTE-Wiley, "Ground Penetrating Radar, from Theoretical Endeavors to Computational Electromagnetics, Signal Processing, Antenna Design and Field Application," 2024, and its French counterpart published in 2025. Maybe more importantly, he has directed/co-directed 33 PhD theses, + 1 on-going, and driven/co-driven 22 post-doctoral scientists, their positions spanning 33+ years. / CNRS
dominique.lesselier@l2s.centralesupelec.fr
L2S, CentraleSupélec
3 rue Joliot Curie
91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
