Antonello Lobianco, PhD is a research engineer employed by a French Grande É cole (polytechnic university). He works on the biophysical and economic modelling of the forest sector and is responsible for the lab models portfolio. He does programming in C++, Perl, PHP, Visual Basic, Python, and Julia. He teaches environmental and forest economics at undergraduate and graduate levels and modelling at PhD level. For a few years, he has followed the development of Julia as it fits his modelling needs. He is the author of a few Julia packages, particularly on data analysis and machine learning (search sylvaticus on GitHub).