Béatrice Galinon-Mélénec is a professor emeritus at Normandy University-Le Havre, a research director at the CNRS UMR IDEES 62661 and research associate at DICEN universités Île-de-France-Paris.
She introduced the concepts of "human-trace" and "sign-trace" in the information and communication sciences in France and founded the e-laboratory on Human Trace UniTwin Complex System UNESCO Human Traces, of which she is the president.