Louis Legendre#
| Membership Number: | 5619 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://lov.imev-mer.fr/web/member/louis-legendre/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2854-7003 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - now Emeritus Professor, Sorbonne University (formerly Pierre et Marie Curie University Paris 06), France
- 2009 - 2013 Professor, Sorbonne University(formerly Pierre et Marie Curie University Paris 06), France
- 2008 - 2009 Professor (secondment by CNRS), Pierre & Marie Curie University (Paris 6), France
- 2002 - now Emeritus Professor, Laval University, Québec
- 2001 - 2010 Director, Villefranche Oceanography Laboratory, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
- 2000 - 2009 Research Professor (Directeur de Recherche), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
- 1981 - 2000 Full Professor, Department of Biology, Laval University, Québec
- 1977 - 1981 Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Laval University, Québec
- 1973 - 1977 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Laval University, Québec
- 1971 - 1973 Postdoctoral Fellow (NATO/National Research Council of Canada), Station Marine de Villefranche-sur-Mer, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France
Fields of Scholarship
- Earth system science
- Biological oceanography
- Philosophy of sciences
- Numerical ecology
- Marine biogeochemistry
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Albert 1st Medal, Oceanographic Institute, Foundation Albert 1st Prince of Monaco
- 2019 Elected Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2017 Sustaining Fellow, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
- 2016 Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Knight, Order of Saint-Charles, Principality of Monaco
- 2004 Highly Cited Researcher, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
- 2002 Fellow, International Ecology Institute, Germany
- 2002 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
- 2001 International Ecology Institute Prize, Germany
- 1999 UQAR's (State University of Québec in Rimouski) Medal
- 1997 Honorary Doctor, University of Liège, Belgium (insignia presented in 1998)
- 1997 Québec Science Prize, Pure and Applied Sciences (Marie-Victorin Prize)
- 1996 - 1998 Killam Research Fellow, Canada Council
- 1990 Léon-Lortie Award (Pure and Applied Sciences), Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal
- 1988 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science)
- 1986 Michel-Jurdant Award (Environmental Sciences), Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences (Acfas); together with Professor Pierre Legendre, Université de Montréal
- 1985 Léo-Pariseau Award (Biological and Medical Sciences), Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences (Acfas)
- 1984 Stevenson Memorial Lecturer, Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research
- 1971 - 1973 NATO Science Fellowship, National Research Council of Canada
