Chehbouni Abdelghani is research director (directeur de recherche) at IRD-CESBIO. He received his B.S. in fluids Mechanics from University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France in 1987 and his M.S. in Environment Science from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse in 1989, and a PhD in Hydrology and Remote Sensing from University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse in 1992.
He has been working at the University of Arizona for 18 months and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 2 years. He is co-investigator of several Remote Sensing programs (VEGETATION, ERS2/ATSR2, EOS, SMOS). His main research interests include the application of remotely sensed data in land-surface atmosphere models especially in arid semi-arid regions. He participates in several international experiments (MONSOON’90, Hapex Sahel) and he is was a co-leader of the Semi-Arid-Land-Surface-Atmosphere (SALSA) international program.
He is now associated with CESBIO where he is leading hydrology group and he the scientific advisor of SUDMED and IRRIMED projects. In 2005, while still associated with CESBIO he will be the director of IRD office in Mexico.
Dr. Chehbouni has supervised several PhD., MS students and he is an authors and co-author of more than 45 per review publications and about 100 papers in conferences and workshops.