Michael Ghil#
| Email: | ghil 'at' lmd.ens.fr |
| Membership Number: | 1845 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Username: | mghil |
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Present and Previous Positions
- Head, Geosciences Department, ENS (July 2003–Dec. 2009)
- Director, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA, July 1992–June 2003.
- Chairman, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA, Sept. 1988–June 1992
- Professor of Climate Dynamics, July 1985–June 1994.
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, September 1971–May 1987, Research Assistant (1971–1975) to Research Professor (1982–1987), via intermediate appointments
- NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, August 1975–September 1976, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Research Associate
- Israel Armed Forces, November 1967–August 1971, classified position
- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 1966–1971, Research Assistant to Instructor
Fields of Scholarship
- atmospheric sciences
- climate dynamics
- dynamical and complex systems theory
- estimation theory
- geophysical fluid dynamics
- macroeconomics
- numerical methods
- physical oceanography
- statistical methods
- remote sensing and applications
Honours and Awards
- P. D. Thompson Lecturer, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo., 2007
- Lorenz Lecture, American Geophysical Union, 2005
- Foreign Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), 2005
- L. F. Richardson Medal, European Geosciences Union, 2004
- Highly Cited in the Geosciences (ISI Web of Science, http://isihighlycited.com, 2004–present
- G. Lemaître Chair, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2004
- Honorary Member, Academy of Engineering Sciences, Romania (AST-R), 2004
- Associate (=Honorary Member), Royal Astronomical Society, 2002
- Foreign Member, Academia Europaea, 1998
- 1997 Visiting Chair and Medal, Collège de France, Paris; Elf-Aquitaine/CNRS Chair and Medal, Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1996
- Condorcet Chair and Medal, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 1995
- Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 1995
- NSF Special Creativity Awards, 1993–1995 and 1998–2000
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1991-92
- Fellow, American Meteorological Society, 1988
- Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech/NASA, 1985–present
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