Pierre Goovaerts will be assisted by Dr. Hélène Demougeot-Renard, consultant of FSS International, specialized in geostatistics applied to environmental problems and already in charge of short courses on geostatistics and environment.

Resume of Pierre Goovaerts

Pierre Goovaerts defended his PhD thesis at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) in 1992. In 1993-1994, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at Stanford University (USA), where he wrote his book Geostatistics for Natural Resources Evaluation published by Oxford University Press in 1997. Pierre Goovaerts was then assistant professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan (USA) during 5 years.

Since 2002, Pierre Goovaerts is the president of the consulting company PGeostat and is also chief scientist of the R&D company Biomedware (USA). Pierre Goovaerts is mainly active in the field of environmental and health data management. Within the last 2 years, he received funding from the National Institute of Health (Michigan, USA) to develop the first software for the joint analysis of exposure and health data. He also acts as a consultant for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). His current projects include 1. the exploration of the links between the regional distribution of arsenic in groundwater and location of patients with bladder cancer, 2. the estimation of exposure to particulate matter in the air and its impact on the risk of cardiovascular disease, and 3. the modeling of the uncertainty attached to census block estimates of the dioxin released by an incinerator.