Jean-Paul Poirier#
| Membership Number: | 1467 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1963 - 1978 Engineer at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
- 1978 - 2003 Physicist at the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris, founder of the Geomaterials Laboratory
Fields of Scholarship
- Physical properties of the deep Earth (lower mantle and core)
- Historical seismology
Honours and Awards
- 1994 Correspondant of the French Academy of sciences, full member October 2002
- 1996 Member of the Bureau des Longitudes
- Member of the National Academy of History of Ecuador
