Jean-François Minster#

• 2006 - Senior Vice President Scientific Development (Total)
• 2005 - 2006 General Science Manager (CNRS)
• 2000 - 2005 Chairman of the board and Executive Director of Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)
• 1996 - 2000 Director of Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU) and Département des Sciences de l'Univers of CNRS
• 1990 - 1996 Director of Institute of Earth Sciences, University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse)
• July 1986 Visiting scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA), July 1986
• 1985 - 1996 Creation and direction of Geophysics and Oceanography Laboratory (Toulouse)
• Summer 1982 Invited Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University (USA)
• 1981 Creation and Direction of Physics and Chemistry of Hydrosphere Laboratory (Paris)

• chronology of meteorites and the formation of the solar system
• inverse problems of trace elements in magmatic series
• chemical geodynamics
• deep Ocean Hydrothermalism
• ocean cycle of trace metals and carbon
• ocean circulation and satellite altimetry
• monitoring and dynamics of ice caps using satellite techniques

• 1976 "John Davis Budhue" fund of the Meteoritical Society
• 1982 Clarke Medal of the American Geochemical Society
• 1993, 1994 "Group Achievement Award" of NASA
• 1993 Médaille d'Argent du CNRS
• 1994 Prix du Général Muteau, Académie des Sciences, Institut de France
• 1995 Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite
• 1996 Grand Prix de l’Académie de l’Air et de l’Espace
• Since 1997 Correspondant of Académie des Sciences
• 1998 Fridjof Nansen Medal of European Geophysical Society
• 1998 William T. Pecora Prize (NASA) for Topex-Poséidon
• 1999 Prize Dargelos of Ecole Polytechnique
• Since 2000 Member of Académie des Technologies
• 2003 Légion d’Honneur

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