Cyril Voyant — Curriculum vitae
Updated 2026-10-18
Physicist and Research Director at Mines Paris–PSL, Centre Observation, Impacts, Énergie (O.I.E.), Sophia Antipolis, and Visiting Professor at the University of Kragujevac. I study solar forecasting, time series, parsimonious AI and forecast evaluation, with a background in medical physics. ORCID 0000-0003-0242-7377.
Selected publications, open software and live tools: methods & code · live tools · full list on HAL and Google Scholar.
Current positions
- Research Director (DR2), Mines Paris – PSL, O.I.E., since 2024.
- Visiting Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac (Serbia), Energy and Process Engineering, 2026.
- Scientific coordinator, Mines Carnot ELECTRE programme (AI for energy, forecasting, multi-source systems), since 2025.
- Member of the Internal Steering Committee, The Transition Institute 1.5, Mines Paris – PSL, since 2026.
- Working Group Expert, ETIP PV (European Technology & Innovation Platform for Photovoltaics), Digital PV, Grid and Storage, since 2026.
Editorial and evaluation roles
- Associate Editor, Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio), since 2026.
- Editorial Board Member, Sustainability (MDPI), Energy Sustainability section, since 2026; Turkish Journal of Forecasting (since 2017); Journal of Radiology and Oncology (since 2016).
- Expert reviewer of research proposals for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Swiss Cancer Research and the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS).
- Reviewer for more than 30 international journals, including Applied Energy, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Solar Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Radiotherapy & Oncology.
Distinctions
- Top 2% Scientists list (Stanford / Elsevier), since 2020.
- Among the 100 most downloaded oncology articles in Scientific Reports in 2024.
- PVSEC Award 2009 (Hamburg), photovoltaic systems category.
- City of Nice Prize (Accademia Corsa, 2012).
Career
| Period | Position |
|---|---|
| since 2024 | Research Director (DR2), Mines Paris – PSL, O.I.E. |
| 2019–2024 | Part-time Professor, University of Corsica (SPE, UMR CNRS 6134) |
| 2020–2024 | Head of the Medical Physics & Radiation Protection unit, oncology-radiotherapy, CH Ajaccio |
| 2018–2019 | Associate Researcher, University of Réunion (PIMENT) |
| 2013–2018 | Visiting Researcher, then Part-time Professor, University of Corsica |
| since 2006 | Medical physicist, CH Ajaccio: external radiotherapy, quality control, radiation protection |
| 2003–2006 | Medical physicist, Polyclinique Saint-Roch, Montpellier: radiotherapy and brachytherapy |
Qualifications: PhD in stochastic modelling and solar radiation forecasting (2011); HDR; CNU qualification for Professor (section 62, 2020). Clinical career: about 10,000 external radiotherapy treatments; commissioning of a complete radiotherapy platform (2 Elekta Agility LINACs, CBCT, 4D CT, 2012–2015).
Supervision
- Ongoing PhDs (co-supervision): Kamel Abdeladim (hybrid PV forecasting and algorithmic sobriety, Mines Paris); Candice Banes (satellite-based solar forecasting, physics-informed AI, Mines Paris); Mohamed Asloune (solar forecasting with confidence intervals, Univ. Corsica); Marie Fusella (iodine-131 metabolism modelling in thyroid oncology, Univ. Corsica); plus collaborative supervision.
- Defended PhDs (4): Alexis Fouilloy, Lamara Benali, Wani Tamas, Kahina Dahmani.
- Post-docs (3): Luis-Antonio Garcia-Gutierrez, Jean-Laurent Duchaud, Fabrice Motte.
- PhD and HDR juries in France and abroad (Toulouse, Polytechnique, Angers, Catania, South Australia).
Teaching
At Mines Paris – PSL: course on intermittent solar resource forecasting (UE14), academic tutoring of international internships and gap years (UE45). Earlier: University of Corsica (Paoli-Tech engineering school, IUT, medicine), from solar forecasting and Matlab modelling to biophysics and biostatistics.
Research projects
See research projects: Fine4Cast (ANR, PEPR TASE), SAPHIR (ANR), HyLES (ANR), INTELPOLY (COST), TILOS (H2020), MYRTE and others.
Profiles
person.cyrilvoyant.com · ORCID · HAL · Google Scholar · GitHub · Wikidata · Machine-readable CV (JSON)