Thierry Fichefet#
| Membership Number: | 2157 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2002 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.climate.be/u/fichefet |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008-present: Full Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
- 2016-present: President of the School of Physics of UCL
- 2010-2012: Head of the Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research (TECLIM) and of the Earth & Climate Division (ELIC) of the Earth and Climate Institute (ELI)
- 2004-2008: Associate Professor at UCL
- 2004-2009: Head of of the Georges Lemaître Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (ASTR) of the Department of Physics of UCL
- 2004-present: Honorary Research Associate of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research at TECLIM
- 1993-2004: Part-time Associate Professor at UCL
- 1998-2003: Part-time Lecturer at UCL
- 1995-1998: Invited Part-time Lecturer at UCL
- 1989-2004: Research Associate of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research at ASTR
- 1989: Senior Research Assistant of the French National Centre for Scientific Research at Météo-France, Toulouse
- 1988-1989: Research Scientist at ASTR
- 1984-1988: Research Assistant of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research at ASTR
Fields of Scholarship
- Modelling climate variability (past and future) at the global scale, with focus on polar regions
- Large-scale sea-ice–ocean modelling
- Modelling climate–cryosphere interactions.
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Academia Europaea since 2002
- Adolphe Wetrems Prize (Mathematical and Physical Sciences) of the Royal Academy of Sceinces, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium
(79th annual period, February 1, 2004 – January 1, 2005).
- Nobel Peace Prize 2007, granted to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC (Thierry Fichefet was Lead Author of the IPCC Working Group 1 Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports)
- Gérard Mégie Prize 2008 of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France.
- Louis Agassiz Medal 2016 of the Division on Cryospheric Sciences of the European Geophysical Union.
