Dr. David Bassir

Université Paris-Saclay

France

David BASSIR is as Professor at the French University of Technology UTBM and also a Senior Research at Ecole Normal Superieur ENS- Paris Saclay University. Previously, he was the dean of IUT at the University of Lorraine (France), Consult for Science and Technology at the French Embassy to serve at the Consulate General of France in Guangzhou (China), General Director of Research at the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics, du Batiment et de l'Industrie (Paris) and Space Craft engineer at GECI Technology in different space agencies such as Arianespace and Astrium Group. He joined the mechanical department of the UTBM as associate professor in 2001 and the Chair Aerospace Structures in 2008 at Technical University of Delft as visiting professor. He holds a Master and a PhD degree in structural optimization from the University of Franche-Comté (France). He has published more than 150 papers in journals, books and conference proceedings, including more than 56 articles in indexed journals. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Int. journal IJSMDO (Scopus, EI) that is published by EDP Sciences.