Eric F. Lambin#
| Membership Number: | 2746 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=539 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Present: Full professo), Département de Géologie et de Géographie, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
- Present: Full professor, Inaugural George and Setsuko Ishiyama Provostial Professor, Department of Environmental Earth System Science, School of Earth Sciences
- Present: Senior fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, California, USA
- 2005 Full professor, Département de Géologie et de Géographie, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuvc, Belgium
- 1999 Associate professor, Département de Géologic et de Géographic, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve; Belgium
- 1995 Assistant professor, Département de Géologic et de Geographie, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
- 1993 Expert for the European Commission, Institute for Remote Sensing Applications, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy;
- 1991 Assistant Professor, Boston University, Department of Geography, United States;
- Research Associate, Center for Remote Sensing, Afiican Studies Center & Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University, United States
Fields of Scholarship
- Geography
- Human-environment interactions
- Environmental sciences
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Member, Academia Europaea
- 2009 Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- 2009 Francqui prize in Sciences
- 2009 Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- 2009 Co-recipient of the Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Special Feature on Land Change
- 2006 Member of the Academic Royale des sciences, des lettres & des beaux-arts de Belgique, Classe des Sciences, Section des Sciences naturelles
- 2005 Zayed International Prize for the Environment
- 2004-2005 Chaire Francqui au titre beige, Katholiek Universiteit Leuven
- 2002-2003 Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, USA
- 1999-2005 Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee of the " Land-Use and Land-Cover Change " (LUCC) project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
- 1997 Associate member of the "Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer de Belgique".
