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Michel Deshaies is a Professor at the University of Lorraine, serving as director of CERPA since 2006 and LOTERR since 2012. His academic career began with an aggregation in geography in 1989 and doctorate in 1994 from the University of Nancy 2, where he was a lecturer until 2006 before attaining full professorship.
His educational trajectory includes higher education at the University of Le Mans, aggregation of geography (1989), doctoral research on limestone plateau meanders in Eastern France (1994), and HDR accreditation on mining landscapes (2005). These qualifications established his expertise in physical and human geography.
Deshaies' research centers on resource exploitation impacts, environmental transformations, and rapid landscape changes with regional specialization in Germany and Central Europe. His work integrates geographical analysis of energy transitions, mining landscape metamorphosis, and socio-ecological conflicts, emphasizing spatial dimensions of human-environment interactions. Key contributions examine territorial anchoring of energy projects and post-mining landscape rehabilitation.
Analysis of his 2016-2020 publications reveals consistent focus on energy transition dynamics, mining landscape transformations in Germany, and socio-spatial dimensions of resource conflicts. The corpus demonstrates interdisciplinary methodology combining field observations, spatial analysis, and qualitative approaches to address territorial challenges in European contexts.
He currently supervises three doctoral students: Jimmy GRIMAULT (energy transition conflicts), Manuel ISNARDON (radioactive waste storage projects), and Arsène KOUADIO (rural electrification in Côte d'Ivoire). His research funding includes ANR COLLENER (2012-2016) on German renewable energy, the Land Transport Infrastructure Twinning project (2012-2015), and the Gazhouille project on coal gas exploitation.
As LOTERR director, he leads research across three thematic axes: Water and Environments, Landscape and Territorial Transitions, and Transitions, Actors and Planning. The laboratory operates advanced technical platforms for hydrometry, topography, sedimentology, and drone-based remote sensing, including specialized tools like IKARE for karst phenomena inventory and a 30,000-image aerial photograph database.
