Denis-Didier Rousseau - Curriculum Vitae#


Professional Address & Phone Number

University of Montpellier
Geosciences Montpellier
2 place Eugène Bataillon, cc-60
34095 Montpellier cedex 05 - FRANCE

Current Position & Institution:
  • Senior Research Scientist @ French CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research
  • Adjunct Senior Research Scientist @ Lamont-Dohert Earth Observatory of Columbia University (NY)

Education (briefly):
  • 1985 PhD in Geology, option Paleontology, University Dijon
  • 1989 Habilitation à diriger des Recherches en Sciences (French University degree for professorship position), University Bourgogne, Dijon

Research Interests:
  • Paleoclimatology: paleodust cycle
  • Arctic

Honours:
  • EGU Hans Oeschger Medal 2017
  • AGU Fall Program Chair 2014-2016; 2017-2019
  • Visiting Professor at Columbia University (01-06/2014)
  • EGU Union Service Award 2008
  • CNRS Silver Medal 2007
  • Humbold - Gay Lussac Research Prize 2004 of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • CNRS Bronze Medal 1990
  • NATO Fellowship Award 1990

Voluntary Activities:
  • Officer of the EGS (European Geophysical Society) now EGU (European Geosciences Union) Section: Climate: past, present and future (2006-2009) Vice President for Paleoclimatology and secretary for the terrestrial records
  • President elected Climate, Past, Present & Future division (2009-2011, 2011-2013)
  • Vice-President elected (2003-2007) of the International Union on Quaternary studies (INQUA), vice-president in charge of the Paleoclimatology commission. INQUA representative to the management committee of IYPE, International Year Planet Earth
  • Chair of the ADOM (Atmospheric circulation dust during the last climatic cycle: Observations and modeling) PAGES initiative
  • Member of the Milankovic medal committee at EGU (2006-2008)
  • Member of the INQUA Commission on Paleoclimatology (2003-2007).
  • Member of the Evaluation panel of the European Commission for the following programs Environment (1993), Environment and Climate (1996, 1997), Global Change, Climate and Biodiversity (2000), Support for Research Infrastructures (2000).
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (Paleontology) of the XIV Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (Berlin August 3-10, 1995)
  • Chairman of the 'Long Terrestrial Records' working group of the INQUA commission on Stratigraphy (1991-1995).
  • Full Member of the INQUA Loess Commission 1987- 1999

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