Eric Galin is a Professor of Computer Science at the University Lyon 1, France. He obtained an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 1993 and a PhD in Computer Science from University Lyon 1 in 1997.

His research interests encompass procedural modelling of virtual worlds, simulating natural phenomena, and modelling with implicit surfaces. He contributed to implicit modelling and proposed several high-level procedural methods for modelling terrains, generating road networks and settlements, synthesizing river networks, and simulating the mutual influence between ecosystems and terrains.

Eric Galin served in several program committees such as SMI, Eurographics, and the series of Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena. He was the co-chair of the Eurographics 2017 conference. He participated in the creation of the French Chapter of Eurographics in 2004 and belongs to the CA. From 2008 to 2013, he was the administrator of Gamagora, a high-level education program connecting Level Design, Graphics Design, and Computer Game Programming tracks.