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F. Polytechnique, He was a Visiting Researcher at NASA Ames Research Center from, and the Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from he worked as the Research Director of the Autonomous Navigation Laboratory at the Laboratoire de Recherches Balistiques et Aerodynamiques where he holds the rank of Major, 1998.

X. Litrico, (. Xavier, and . Litrico@cemagref, fr) graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique (school training top level French officials) in 1993 and the Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts (ENGREF) in 1995, He received a Ph.D. degree in Water Sciences from ENGREF in 1999 and the " Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches " in Control Engineering from INPG, 2007.