Employment and Education

$\bullet$ Employment

- Current Position :
- Deputy Director : Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (LMD), Paris, France. (~200 scientists and engineers).

- Senior Research scientist CNRS ("Directeur de recherche CNRS") at Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (LMD), Paris, France.

- 2009-2017: Head of the "Pole Systeme Solaire" (Solar System Center) , Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL)

- 2004-2005: Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, Space Science Division, California, USA.

- 1998-Present: CNRS Research scientist at IPSL/LMD, Paris, France.

- 1996-1998: CNES (French Space Agency) Post-doctoral Fellow.

- 1993-1996: Phd Student, LMD.

- 1992-1993 : NASA Ames Research Center, Space Science Division (California), Engineer (preparation of the "Mars Balloon" project for the Mars 96 mission).

- 1991- 1992 : Off-shore engineer, La Defense, France (submarine pipelines)

$\bullet$ Education

- 2007: Habilitation ("Habilitation a diriger les recherches") University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

- 1996: Ph.D. in Physics, University of Paris VI

- 1991: D.E.A (M.S.) in Oceanography and Meteorology, University of Paris VI.

- 1991: Graduated from the Grande Ecole ENSTA (National College for Advanced Technologies, engineering).