Gerard Berthiau is Doctor of Ecole Centrale Paris. He worked for 15 years at the Atomic Energy Commission in Saclay before he joined the University of Nantes in 2001 as Full-Professor now. Currently, he manages the team of electromagnetic device modeling of the Institute of Research on Electrical Energy of Nantes-Atlantique. His research domains are electromagnetic field computation, electromagnetic nondestructive evaluation and global optimization heuristics. He is the author of more than 100 papers in international journals or conferences.