Jean Dercourt#
Obituary, Académie des sciences
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)
Awards and honors
- 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