Short biography of François Joseph CHATELON

is an associate professor in applied mathematics at the University of Corsica, France, where he got his PhD (1996). Prior to entering the field of wildland fire he worked in the areas of fluid mechanics and physical oceanography, solving the Navier-Stokes and shallow water equations. His three main areas of research interests are: 1) Development of a physical simplified surface fire spread model called ‘the Balbi Model’. 2) Development of sub-models which take the convective flow induced by the fire into account. 3) Investigations on fire eruption’s occuring.