Speakers

Françoise Montariol graduated as engineer from the École Nationale de Météorologie in 1986. She first occupied different positions at Météo France, including head of telecom and maintenance contracts, coordinator and developer for forecaster tool Météotel. From 1994 to 2013, she worked on lightning detection and related subjects, first at Météo France until 2006, then with Météorage in the United Kingdom. Topics included network plans, sensor installation and maintenance, operational data centre, data analysis and quality, end user products development, marketing and sales, expertise and international relations. She dealt with planning and setting up Météorage lightning detection network over the British Isles and developing the British market. Back to Météo France in 2014, she moved to metrology, first deputy then since 2016 head of the Department of Metrology at the Direction of Observing Systems, including the calibration laboratory and WMO RIC Toulouse. Over the years, she thoroughly changed and updated the laboratory means, methods, operations and system, with a small involved team. She worked with WMO Expert Team on Metrology Quality Traceability Calibration for 10 years. She led the laboratory over a 5-year plan to ISO 17025 accreditation for temperature, pressure and humidity calibration, granted by Cofrac in February 2026.