Sylvain Coutu

Sylvain Coutu

Senior Underwriter, Agriculture Reinsurance, Swiss Re

How I work with Harvest

Sylvain works in research and development at Swiss Re on research projects related to big data, remote sensing, and field campaigns. As an end user community, Swiss Re's involvement with Harvest is part of the insurance industry emphasis on external relationship development and developing ways in which insurance products can link up with big data for food and agriculture improvement. Sylvain has expertise in Environmental and Ecological Engineering. 

Selected Relevant Publications
  1. The insurance industry and public-private collaborations as a vector to develop and spread EO technologies and techniques in the domain of Food Security: The Swiss Re case.
  2. Assessing dominant uncertainties in urban buildup/washoff processes under climate change: A case study in Western Switzerland
  3. Temporal dynamics of antibiotics in wastewater treatment plant influent
  4. Model falsification diagnosis and sensor placement for leak detection in pressurized pipe networks
  5. Temporal Variability of Antibiotics Fluxes in Wastewater and Contribution from Hospitals