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Emmanuel Ledoux

Civil Engineer of Mines, geology option (1970), Doctor-Engineer of Water Sciences (EMP-Paris VI University, 1980), Emmanuel Ledoux has spent his whole career in higher education and research at the Ecole des Mines in Paris, while at the same time being heavily involved in expertise.

From 1987 to 2005, Emmanuel Ledoux was Director of the school’s Geological Informatics Centre. Since 1992, he has been Director of Research there and since 2006, a scientific advisor of the Geosciences  Centre. He is also responsible for doctoral “Quantitative  Hydrology and Hydrogeology ” training and is Deputy Director of the  Geosciences and natural resources  doctoral school (ED398).


His research focuses mainly on the creation of mathematical models in hydrogeology (flows, pollution transfer, heat transfer), their application to problems involving management of hydrogeological basin water resources and the hydrological impact of climate change. Many applications are involved: study of diffuse pollution of aquifer systems, nitrate and phytosanitary cases; impact of bedrock storage (raw materials, radioactive, industrial or household waste); impact of industrial activities on the underground environment, specific case of mining installations; design and implementation of in situ measuring devices applied to hydrogeology and geothermal science; hydrogeology of fissured environments.

His extensive work in expertise and research relates to mines, quarries and storage sites.

Emmanuel Ledoux is head of the  Hydrogeology  course at the  École des Mines  in Paris. He is involved in teaching the “Earth Sciences and Environment” and “Ground and Bedrock” options and mathematical hydrogeology seminars at the Ecole des Mines in Paris. He contributes to seminars and courses in porous environment fluid mechanics, in the geosciences and geomaterials speciality, and courses in hydrogeology modelling, in the hydrosciences and continental environments speciality (SDUE Master of the Pierre et Marie Curie University). He lectures in hydrogeology at Polytech Paris (Pierre et Marie Curie University).

Emmanuel Ledoux is the author of several hundred publications. He has received many prizes: the BRGM Dolomieu prize awarded by the Académie des Sciences (2009), the Gosselet prize for applied geology awarded by the French Geological Society (2001) and the Henri Milon prize awarded by the French Hydrotechnical Society for his thesis “Modélisation conjointe des écoulements de surface et des écoulements souterrains sur un système hydrologique” (1983).

Emmanuel Ledoux joined CNE2 in 2007.