Dr Obrecht first graduated in Mathematics from Universit� de Strasbourg in 1990. From 1993 to 2008, he served as a teacher of mathematics in French secondary education. He obtained a master�s degree in Computer Science from Universit� Lyon 1 in 2009 and a doctoral degree in Civil Engineering from INSA Lyon in 2012. He was appointed associate professor in 2015 and joined both the Thermal Energy Storage and the Building Physics research groups at the Centre of Energy and Thermal Sciences of Lyon (CETHIL). His research work focuses on innovative approaches in computational fluid dynamics suited to massively parallel processors with applications to high performance simulations of heat storage processes and of urban microclimatic conditions.