Georges Balmino#
| Membership Number: | 1897 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1999 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/1602 http://degruyteropen.com/people/balmino |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus scientist at GRGS (Groupe de Recherches de Geodesie Spatiale) in the Space Geodesy team of the French space agency (CNES)
- Emeritus scientist of the Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, in Toulouse, France
- 1997-2004 Executive Director of GRGS
- 1991-1999 Secretary General of IUGG
- 1979-2009 Director of BGI (Bureau Gravimetrique International )
Fields of Scholarship
- Space and Planetary Geodesy
- Gravity Field and Topographic Modeling
- Satellite Geodesy
Honours and Awards
- 2005 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
- 2002 Vening-Meinesz Medal, EGU
- 1999 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1997 NASA-JPL Mars Global Surveyor Group Achievement Award
- 1996 Doctor Honoris causa of the Technical University of Graz, Austria
- 1996 NASA-JPL Magellan Achievement Award, 1994; CNRS Silver Medal *1991 Fellow of the International Association of Geodesy
- 1983 Prize Gustave Roux of the French Academy of Sciences
- 1977 CNES Bronze Medal
- 1976 NASA Geos 3 Special Achievement Award
- Member of the Academy of Air and Space
- Member of the Academy of Sciences Inscriptions and Belles Lettres
- Corresponding member of the Bureau des Longitudes
