Jean Dercourt#

Curriculum Vitae#

CV (Source: Académie des sciences)

• Graduate studies at the Faculty of Paris
• 1957 Research Fellow at CNRS
• 1958 Associate of Natural Sciences
• 1959 - 1965 Instructor at the Faculty of Paris
• 1962 - 1963 Military Service, School Children Troupe Andelys
• 1964 Doctor of Science, Faculty of Sciences at Paris
• 1965 - 1979 Professor at the University of Lille
• 1969 Visiting Scholar at the University of Edmonton (Alberta, Canada)
• 1979 - 2004 Professor at the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris
• 1979 - 1990 Director of the Laboratory of Comparative geology of continents and oceans associated with the CNRS
• 1987 - 1988 Visiting Fellow at Imperial College (London University)
• 1987 - 1992 Co-director with LE Ricou (CNRS-Paris) of the program team Tethys Research Grouping, involving BP, BRGM, CNRS-INSU, ELF, IFP, IFREMER, SHELL, TOTAL, UPMC
• 1993 - 2001 Co-director with Mr. Gaetani (University of Milan) Peri-Tethys Programme, comprising AGIP, ARCO, BRGM, Chevron, Conoco, Elf, Exxon, IFP, Shell, Sonatrach

Management and scientific animation

1 / Nationally

• Member and Chairman of the National Council of Universities (Geology Section) (CNU) (1974-1980, 1982-1985)
• Consultant to the Mission for Research (Geology), Ministry of Universities (1975-1981)
• Member of the Board of Directors of the National Centre for Ocean Development (CNEXO) (1979-1984)
• Member of the Board of Scientific and Technical Institute of Marine Fisheries (ISTPM) (1981-1982)
• Member of the Board of IFREMER (1984-1986)
• Chairman of the geological map of France (Bureau of Geological and Mining Research, BRGM) (1986-1992)
• Chairman of the Board of Earth Sciences Bureau of Geological and Mining Research (BRGM) (1995-1997)
• Member of the Scientific Council of the National Agency for Radioactive Waste (ANDRA) (since 1994)
• Member and Chairman of the Scientific Council of the French Oil Institute (IFP) (1991-2005)
• Committee member for oil exploration (COPREP) (1994-2004)
• Chairman of the National Assessment of Research (NRAC) (1997-2003)
• Member and Chairman of the Development Council of the Institute of Oceanography (2001-2006)
• Member of the Scientific Council of the Environment Agency and Energy Management (ADEME) (since 2005)

2 / At the international level

• Vice-Chairman of the Organizing Committee of 26 th International Geological Congress, Commission field sessions, Paris (1975-1980)
• Member and Chairman of the Commission tectonics (COMTEC) of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) (1980-1992)
• Chairman of the Commission for the Geological Map of the World (DMCC) (1992-2000)
• Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Programme Middle-East Basins Evolution (ESEM) (since 2003)

• Member (1957) and Chairman of the Geological Society of France
• Member of the Belgian Society of Geology (Brussels)
• Fellow of the Geological Society of America (Boulder, Colo.) and the Bulgarian Geological Society (Sofia)
• Member of the Romanian Academy (Bucharest) (1995), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest)
• Member (since 1989) and Vice-President (1992-1994) of the Academia Europaea (London)
• Member of the Academy of Venezuela (1999), the Royal Academy of Belgium (2005), the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology (Morocco) (2006)
• Visquenel price of the Geological Society of France (1966)
• Gonelet price (Price of Industrial Society North) (1966)
• Fourmarier Medal (Geological Society of Belgium) (1968)
• Silver Medal of CNRS (1969)
• Price Von Buch, Geological Society of Germany (1996)
• International Award of the American Association of Petroleum Geology (1999)
• Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Earth Sciences in Beijing (1992), the Universitéde Sofia (1995), University of Athens (1997), Institut Catholique de Paris (2000)
• Commander of the Order of Merit
• Officer of the Legion of Honor