Work experience:

Laurent Delauney is working at Ifremer for 27 years on in-situ monitoring systems (1993 - up to now).

He created the calibration laboratory for marine physical and chemical parameters and then was the Quality Control manager.

In 1995 he obtained the COFRAC accreditation for Pressure and Temperature parameters. Then Laurent Delauney dedicated his research work on biofouling protection for marine in situ sensors.

From 1996 to 2006, Laurent Delauney was in charge of sensors development and maintenance plan for autonomous monitoring stations development at Ifremer, in particular for Coastal Marel family products and seabed observatories.

In 2007 Laurent Delauney is then in charge of the Electronics and In situ Measurement laboratory.

In 2013 up to 2017, Laurent Delauney is in charge of the "Detection, Measurement and Sensors" Laboratory in which various oceanographic innovative development is performed to serve autonomous monitoring.

2017 up to now, Laurent Delauney is in charge of development of  in situ monitoring systems  and metrology best practices in the framework of European projects and Research Infrastructure for oceanography (NeXOS, JERICO-RI, ENVRI+, EMSO ERIC, Euro ARGO, AtlantOS…).

Laurent Delauney is now coordinator of the EU project JERICO-S3 and scientific and technical coordinator of the EU projetc JERICO-DS. Laurent Delauney is involved in the coordination of the application to the ESFRI Roadmap of JERICO (Joint European Research Infrastructure for Coastal Observation).

Laurent Delauney is EuroGOOS Technological Plan WorkingGroup Co-Chair.

Laurent Delauney is a BEERI member (Board of European environmental research infrastructures)

Laurent Delauney is member of the EOOS Operational committee.