February 19, 2026, 10:30-11:30 CET
Join YEAR on February 19th for the first webinar of 2026, led by Diana Viegas (INESC TEC), Cleitus Antony (Tyndall), and Christophe Rabouille (CEA). Join for us to hear 3 perspectives on ocean observation: INESC TEC’s sensing and robotics, Tyndall’s acoustic sensing for noise monitoring, and LSCE’s research on gas fluxes, carbon cycling, and deep‑sea environments.
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WEBINAR OVERVIEW
Talk 1 — INESC TEC
Diana Viegas will present INESC TEC.OCEAN, a multidisciplinary Centre of Excellence in ocean research and engineering. She will outline how the initiative integrates advanced sensing, robotics, and data science to support ocean sustainability and drive innovation in the blue economy.
Talk 2 — Tyndall
Cleitus Antony will present a talk about Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Marine Noise Monitoring.
Talk 3 — CEA
Christophe Rabouille will give a short overview of LSCE’s marine activities, from gas fluxes and carbon‑cycle modelling to deep‑sea and pollution studies.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Diana Viegas
Diana Viegas holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Porto (2010) and is a senior researcher and centre coordinator at INESC TEC, in Porto, Portugal. She has a strong background in applied physics and computational methods and extensive experience in applied research, scientific leadership, and the coordination of multidisciplinary research teams. Her research work focuses on optical fiber and photonic sensing technologies, signal processing and spectroscopy, as well as autonomous and robotic systems, particularly for marine and environmental monitoring applications.
Throughout her career at INESC TEC, she has been actively involved in national and European research and development projects, assuming both technical and coordination roles. She regularly supervises students and early-career researchers and contributes to the scientific community as a reviewer and evaluator for research projects, academic theses, and peer-reviewed journals. Diana Viegas is the author and co-author of several scientific publications in international journals and conferences and is also engaged in technology transfer, collaboration with industry, and science communication activities.
Cleitus Antony
Cleitus Antony is a Senior Staff Researcher at Tyndall National Institute and University College Cork. He specialises in photonic systems for communications and sensing, with experience spanning high-speed optical networks, physical-layer system design, and large-scale experimental platforms. Earlier in his career, he worked in fibre-optic transceiver development in Japan and completed his doctoral research at Tyndall on advanced fibre-to-the-home technologies. At Tyndall, Dr. Antony’s research focuses on Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), where standard telecom fibre-optic cables are used as spatially distributed acoustic sensors, enabling continuous measurement of vibration and sound along the fibre. His work supports applications in ocean and infrastructure monitoring and contributes to the development of scalable, high-performance fibre-optic sensing technologies.
Christophe Rabouille
Christophe Rabouille is a scientific researcher at CEA since 1991 and Director of Research since 2014. He obtained his Ph. D. at the University of Paris in 1990 and was awarded his habilitation (HDR) in 2002. His major research topics are aquatic biogeochemistry, early diagenesis of sediments, river-sea interface, biogeochemistry in coastal and deep seas, in situ measurements using microsensors, diagenetic modelling. He has advised 7 PhD students and published over 125 papers on deep and costal sea biogeochemistry. He has also coordinated large scientific projects in France related to these two different realms (CHACCRA, CONGOLOBE, DeltaRhône), and a large number of cruises on and high seas coastal national ships (N.O. Thetys II, Pourquoi Pas?). He is now leading the RiOMar project, a 6-year national effort on River-Sea interaction in the present and future funded by ANR and France 2030.