Jean-Paul Travert

Since December 2025, I am a Research Engineer at EDF R&D, working in the National Laboratory for Hydraulics and the Environment department.

In October 2025, I completed my PhD in engineer sciences on the Calibration of roughness for flood modeling using satellite data under the supervision of Sébastien Boyaval from LHSV and Inria, and of Cédric Goeury, Vito Bacchi, and Fabrice Zaoui from EDF R&D.

I now contribute to projects on the evaluation of water resources, with a specific interest in the development of numerical tools.

News

Paper alert: New published paper in Computational Geosciences. Data assimilation of flood maps in a 2D flood model for different performance measures, J.-P. Travert, S. Boyaval, C. Goeury, V. Bacchi, F. Zaoui, 2026. Paper
Paper alert: New published paper in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. Evaluating the effects of preprocessing, method selection, and hyperparameter tuning on SAR-based flood mapping and water depth estimation, J.-P. Travert, C. Goeury, S. Boyaval, V. Bacchi, F. Zaoui, 2026. Paper

Upcoming events

Wil be participating in TELEMAC User Conference 2026 from October 14 to 16, 2026, in Toulouse, France.

News archive

Attended Congrès eau et IA 2026 from 4th to 6th of March 2026.
The contribution of sensitivity analysis and data assimilation to tidal-stream resource assessment: the example of the Alderney Race J. Thiébot, C. Goeury, J.-P. Travert, A. Sebastian, J. Salomon Applied Ocean Research, 2026 Paper
Delighted to announce that I successfully defended my PhD on the 14th of October 2025! Thank you to the members of the jury. Slides available, as well as the manuscript.

Awards

Received a special mention for the Gerhard Jirka Award for Young Researchers 2024, recognizing the best presentation given by a Young Professional during the biennial IAHR Europe Division Congress. Slides available
Among the 31 most highly rated proposals by the CERN scientific jury for the Beamline for Schools competition (BL4S) for the proposal “Comparison of the efficiency of antimatter and matter in cancer therapy”.

Selected publications

WRR

Evaluation of performance measures for comparing flood models with satellite observations

Jean-Paul Travert, Sébastien Boyaval, Cédric Goeury, and 2 more authors

Water Resources Research, 2025

Abs DOI Bib HTML

@article{travert2025wre,
  title = {Evaluation of performance measures for comparing flood models with satellite observations},
  author = {Travert, Jean-Paul and Boyaval, S{\'e}bastien and Goeury, C{\'e}dric and Bacchi, Vito and Zaoui, Fabrice},
  journal = {Water Resources Research},
  volume = {61},
  pages = {e2024WR038506},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {American Geophysical Union},
  doi = {10.1029/2024WR038506},
  dimensions = {true}
}

AOR

The contribution of sensitivity analysis and data assimilation to tidal-stream resource assessment: the example of the Alderney Race

Jéróme Thiébot, Cédric Goeury, Jean-Paul Travert, and 2 more authors

Applied Ocean Research, 2026

DOI Bib HTML

@article{thiebot2026aor,
  title = {The contribution of sensitivity analysis and data assimilation to tidal-stream resource assessment: the example of the {Alderney Race}},
  author = {Thi{\'e}bot, J{\'e}r{\'o}me and Goeury, C{\'e}dric and Travert, Jean-Paul and Sebastian, Antoine and Salomon, Julien},
  journal = {Applied Ocean Research},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  doi = {10.1016/j.apor.2026.104970},
  dimensions = {true}
}