Stéphane Gibout is Associate Professor at the Laboratoire de Thermique, Énergétique et Procédés (LaTEP, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France) since 2002.
He is specialized in modeling, simulation and optimization of energy systems, especially in the field of self-sufficiency and renewable energies.
Since 2018, these activities have been refocused on the field of greenhouses and photovoltaic energy.
He is working on a floating photovoltaic power plant demonstrator designed for irrigation lakes, in partnership with the Chamber of Agriculture of 64 and the Groupement des Irrigants du 64.
He is also co-leader of SIQINIQ projects (OHMi Nunavik / LabEx DRIIHM) which focuses on autonomous greenhouse farming in the North.
He has supervised 6 PhD students, 2 postdocs and 12 M2 internships.
He is the author of 36 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, of a collection of conference proceedings (SFT 2018, which he organized) and of a patent application. He has 813 citations for 43 papers and an h-index of 16 (source: Scopus on 29 March 2023).