Véronique Bellon

Véronique Bellon Maurel is an agronomist and engineer of bridges, water and forests. She specialises in sensors in agriculture and in environmental assessment. In 2016, she founded the Convergences Agriculture Numérique (#DigitAg) Institute in Montpellier - funded by the Programme Investissement d’Avenir - which she still directs today. Based on interdisciplinary research bringing together social sciences, digital sciences and agronomists, this project aims to build the academic foundations for the development of responsible digital agriculture in France and in Southern countries. A member of the Académie des Technologies since 2020, she created the Occitanum Living-Lab (Occitanie Agroécologie Numérique), which aims to mobilise digital technologies to promote the development of agroecology and local food.