Sophie Godin-Beekmann#
| Membership Number: | 5134 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://godin-beekmann.page.latmos.ipsl.fr |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3903-3040 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/groups/internationalozonecommission/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since November 2018 Deputy Scientific Director of the National Institute of Sciences of the Universe of CNRS in charge of relations with universities and national observing services
- 2016 - 2020 Adjunct Professor at Western Ontario University, Canada
- 2012 - 2017 Director of the Observatory of Versailles-Saint-Quentin en Yvelines
- 2011 Promotion - 1st class Director of Research at CNRS
- 2005 Promotion - 2nd class Director of Research at CNRS
- 2002 - 2003 Mobity to Alfred Wegener Institute (Potsdam, Germany) with a European Marie Curie Fellowship-
- 1989 Tenure track position at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France) as Chargée de Recherche (Research Scientist)
- 1988 - 1989 PostDoctoral fellow at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA, with a fellowship of the US National Research Council
Fields of Scholarship
- Surface UV radiation and links to human health issues (skin cancer, vitamin D)
- Development of ground-based and airborne lidar instruments
- Stratospheric aerosol budget and long-term evolution
- High resolution chemistry transport models
- Dynamical transport processes and barriers in the stratosphere
- Stratospheric ozone budget and long-term evolution
- Atmospheric composition in the stratosphere and its link to human activities and climate change
- Polar ozone depletion
- Science management
Honours and Awards
- 1990 NASA Award for achievement in lidar remote sensing
- 2012 UNEP certificate for valuable contribution in Montreal Protocol Scientific Assessment Panel
- 2015 Elected Fellow of the International Union for Geodesy and Geophysics
