Francois Anton received his B. Sc. degree in geodetic sciences (equivalent to a B. Sc. in Mathematics with a Major in Geometry) from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM, Paris, France) in 1992, his M. A.T.D.R. in Land Planning and Regional Development and his M. Sc. in Geodetic Sciences from Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada in 1992 and 1995 respectively. He obtained his Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Afterwards, he worked as an Alberta Ingenuity Fund post-doctoral fellow at University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. From August 2006 to May 2017, he worked as a tenured Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (in the departments of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling and National Space Institute). He has been Visiting Professor at Universitat de Girona (Girona, Catalonia, Spain) and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Skudai, Johor, Malaysia). Currently, he is holding a Full Professorship in Algebraic and Computational Geometry at Yachay Tech – Ecuador.