Martin Beniston#
| Membership Number: | 1937 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1999 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.unige.ch/climate/Team/Beniston.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 Full professor at the University of Geneva, Chair for Climate Research and Director of the Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE)
- 1996-2006 Full professor position as head of the Department of Geosciences at the University of Fribourg
- 1993-1996 Senior scientist position at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and the vice-chairmanship of one of the working groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- 1990-1992 Director of ProClim (the Swiss National Climate Program of the Swiss Academy of Sciences in Bern)
Fields of Scholarship
- Air pollution
- Climate change
Honours and Awards
- Co-ordinator and initiator of the EU-FP7 ACQWA project
- 2000 Elected member of the Academia Europea, the European Academy of Sciences, since the Year 2000
- 2005 Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the European Research Course on Atmospheres (ERCA)
- Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Austrian Climate Research Program
- Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the EU-ENSEMBLES Project (6th Framework Programme "Environment")
- Member of the Advisory Board of the EU ERA-NET "Climate and Health" programme
- Member of the Climate Change Task Force of Green Cross International, chaired by former president Michael Gorbatchev
- Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of GDF-SUEZ, Paris, one of the world's largest energy consortia
