Guy Brasseur#
Membership Number: | 2060 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2000 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/staff/ohneabteilung/guy-brasseur |
Present and Previous Positions
- Senior Scientist and Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany
- since 2011 Distinguished Scholar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, USA
- 2009-2014 Director of the Climate Service Center (CSC) in Hamburg, Germany and External Member of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany
- 2009-2011 Part-time Senior Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, USA
- 2006-2009 Associate Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Head of the NCAR Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL), Boulder, Colorado, USA
- 1999-2006 Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg (Department “Atmosphere in the Earth System”), and Member of the Max-Planck-Society, Munich, Germany
- 2000-2006 CEO and Scientific Director of the Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ), Hamburg, Germany
- 1990-2011 Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado, USA
- 1990-1999 Director, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA, and head of the Global Modeling Project.
- 1995-1996 Associate Research Director, Service d’Aéronomie du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Verrières-le-Buisson, France
- 1989-1990 Acting Director, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- 1988-1990 Scientist III, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA. Head of the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Section
- 1985-1988 "Chercheur Qualifié" at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research
Fields of Scholarship
- Climate variability
- Stratospheric ozone depletion
- Chemistry-climate relations
- Global Change
- Biosphere-atmosphere interactions
- Solar-terrestrial relations
- Climate change
- Global air pollution including tropospheric ozone
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Founding and Ordinary Member of the Academy of Sciences of Hamburg, Germany
- Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, Section: Technology and Society
- Member of the Research Board of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2011-2013)
- Doctor Honoris Causa of the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, 2005
- Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Oslo, Norway, 2008
- Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Athens, Greece, 2010
- Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2005)