Dany Vandromme has been a university professor since 1988 at the National Institute for Applied Sciences at Rouen. As a researcher, he is responsible of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (LMFN), a component of CORIA, UMR 6614 of CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). Research domain is the numerical modeling applied to supersonic and reactive flows with a special interest for turbulence physics.

Responsible for the regional network SYRHANO (Upper Normandy region) since its beginning in 1993 until July 2006, and Founder and chairman of the networking and computing Centre of Upper Normandy (CRIHAN) (1992-2006), Dany Vandromme has been a user of ARPANET in the early 80's, and later on, of INTERNET, as a post-doc and associate research fellow at NASA Ames Research Center from 1980 to 1990.

He was in charge of the networking and computing activities at the Engineering Sciences Department of CNRS from 1993 to 1998. As such, he was also supervising the CNRS laboratories depending from the section #10 of the "Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique".

He has been director of GIP RENATER since July 1st, 1998.

As director of RENATER, Dany Vandromme works on evolutions of the public Internet in France, on technical aspects as well as on economy models, suited to the specific requirements of the research and education community. 

Dany Vandromme represents RENATER in the European NREN consortium in charge of GEANT (www.geant.net). Since January 2001, he served as member of the DANTE (www.dante.org.uk) Board of Director. Since January 2003, he is the Chairman of the DANTE Board.

He participates to the works of ICANN, through the non-commercial constituency (NCDNHC/NCUC) of the Domain Name Supporting Organisation.

He is one of the two French representatives in the European Strategy Forum for Research infrastructures (ESFRI) (www.cordis.lu/esfri)

Dany Vandromme awarded as "Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite" on January 31st, 2002. His acknowledgement speech is available in French: speech.

The grand opening ceremony of CRIHAN, at Sant Etienne du Rouvray has been a good opportunity to summarize the regional activities (in French only). Then, the 10th anniversary of RENATER has also been a good opportunity to recall some basic principles (in French only) for the action.

The celebration of the 20th anniversary of the German NREN (www.dfn.de) has been also an opportunity to highlight the collective action of the European NRENs.

On 10th october 2005, CRIHAN organized two "cafés des sciences" sessions, during the French week of sciences event, and celebrated the start of operation of a new high performance computing platform, dedicated to numerical modelling.

On 9th november 2005, the closing session of the French academic networking days in Marseille, JRES (www.jres.org) was a chance to present the research networks within the global framework of research infrastructures, as seen by the European Union. This talk was supported by a few slides.

At the end of November 2006, he joined the General Directorate for Research and Innovation of the ministry of research and higher education, where he works in the research infrastructure unit, within the Strategy Directorate (www.recherche.gouv.fr).

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