Denise Pumain#
| Membership Number: | 1662 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 1995 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.parisgeo.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article164&lang=en |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000-2001: Chief executive for the Ministry of Education in the Académie de Grenoble (Recteur)
- 1989-: Professor of Geography, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
- 1985-1989 : Professor of Geography, Université Paris XIII
- 1981-1985: Researcher at the Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (Paris)
- 1980: Doctorate (“State thesis”) in Geography
- 1970-1981: Lecturer, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Fields of Scholarship
- Urban geography
- Theoretical geography
- Comparative analysis of cities
- Urban hierarchy
- Urban growth
- Dynamic modelling
- Complex systems
- Multi-agents simulation
Honours and Awards
- 1984 Bronze medal of the CNRS
- 1990 prix de l'aménagement du territoire (DATAR)
- 1995 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1999 Chevalier de la légion d’Honneur
- 2003 Doctor Honoris Causa de l’Université de Lausanne
- 2009 Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite
- 2009 Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
