Eric Delory

Eric Delory has worked in environmental science and bioengineering in positions ranging from applied research to management, in Europe and Asia. He started his career developing diverse portable hardware solutions and signal processing algorithms for biomedical and environmental sensing applications. Applications ranged from human heart rate telemetry technologies to developing systems for the assessment of noise impacts on mammal sensory systems. In the 1990s, he was with the National University of Singapore, where he was a member of the founding team of the Acoustic Research Laboratory, working on new signal processing and pattern recognition methods, in particular wavelets and neural networks. Back to Europe, he cofounded the Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics at the Technical University of Catalonia, where he kept working in signal processing, sensing science, and technologies. His interest extended to multidisciplinary observing systems, including sensor, and data interoperability, in particular working with the IEEE on the initial efforts of standardization of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems, for which he became a Liaison of the European Seas Observatory Network ESONET, Instigator of the EMSO infrastructure. Since 2010, he has been leading the Observatory of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands, mainly doing system Research and Development in optics, acoustics, and interoperability. He coordinates NeXOS, a 21-partner European collaborative project developing compact cost-effective sensors, optical and acoustic, for the monitoring of ocean variables. He also recently engaged in European integration initiatives. He has coordinated the transnational access activities of the European Fixed Open-Ocean Observatories Consortium FixO3 and also currently coleads the new technologies work package in AtlantOS, Kiel, Germany.