Roland Masson

Roland Masson is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the J.A. Dieudonné Department of Mathematics, University Côte d'Azur. He is also a member of the Coffee EPC (Inria centre Université Côte d'Azur) and collaborates with institutions like Inria, IFPEN, BRGM, and Andra. His research focuses on multi-physics simulations, including thermo-hydro-mechanical models and multiphase Darcy flows in heterogeneous and fractured porous media, with applications to geothermal systems, geological storage, and mineral resources.

His work involves developing numerical methods for discretizing PDEs on polyhedral meshes, iterative coupling algorithms, and domain decomposition methods. He leads projects like Mathématiques Souterraines (MathSout) and ANR PRCE Earth-Beat, which explore transient couplings in hydrothermal systems. Masson has contributed to software development, notably the ComPASS open-source simulator.

His publications span topics such as VEM-Nitsche schemes, hybrid-dimensional models, and finite volume methods for complex geological systems. He teaches courses on finite volume methods for PDEs, dynamic systems, and finite elements at University Côte d'Azur.