Michael Ghil#
| Membership Number: | 1845 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://dept.atmos.ucla.edu/tcd/people/michael-ghil http://www.environnement.ens.fr/annuaire/ghil-michael/?lang=fr |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5177-7133 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003 - 2009 Head, Geosciences Department, ENS
- 1992 - 2003 Director, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA
- 1988 - 1992 Chairman, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA
- 1985 - 1994 Professor of Climate Dynamics
- 1971 - 1987 Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU (Research Assistant (1971 - 1975) to Research Professor (1982 - 1987), via intermediate appointments)
- 1975 - 1976 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Research Associate
- 1967 - 1971 Israel Armed Forces
- 1966 - 1971 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Research Assistant to Instructor
Fields of Scholarship
- Remote sensing and applications
- Statistical methods
- Climate dynamics
- Physical oceanography
- Atmospheric sciences
- Geophysical fluid dynamics
- Estimation theory
- Numerical methods
- Macroeconomics
- Dynamical and complex systems theory
Honours and Awards
- 2007 P. D. Thompson Lecturer, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo.
- 2005 Lorenz Lecture, American Geophysical Union
- 2005 Foreign Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW)
- 2004 L. F. Richardson Medal, European Geosciences Union
- 2004 - present Highly Cited in the Geosciences (ISI Web of Science, http://isihighlycited.com
- 2004 G. Lemaître Chair, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- 2004 Honorary Member, Academy of Engineering Sciences, Romania (AST-R)
- 2002 Associate (=Honorary Member), Royal Astronomical Society
- 1998 Foreign Member, Academia Europaea
- 1997 Visiting Chair and Medal, Collège de France, Paris
- 1996 Elf-Aquitaine/CNRS Chair and Medal, Académie des Sciences, Paris
- 1995 Condorcet Chair and Medal, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 1995 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
- 1993 - 1995 and 1998 - 2000 NSF Special Creativity Awards
- 1991 - 1992 Guggenheim Fellow,
- 1988 Fellow, American Meteorological Society
- 1985 - presentDistinguished Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech/NASA
