Jean-François Minster#

Present and Previous Positions

• 2006 - Senior Vice President Scientific Development (Total)
• 2005-2006 General Science Manager (CNRS)
• 2000-2005 Chairman of the board and Executive Director of Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)
• 1996-2000 Director of Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU) and Département des Sciences de l'Univers of CNRS
• 1990-1996 Director of Institute of Earth Sciences, University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse)
• July 1986 Visiting scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA), July 1986
• 1985-1996 Creation and direction of Geophysics and Oceanography Laboratory (Toulouse)
• Summer 1982 Invited Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University (USA)
• 1981 Creation and Direction of Physics and Chemistry of Hydrosphere Laboratory (Paris)

• chronology of meteorites and the formation of the solar system
• inverse problems of trace elements in magmatic series
• chemical geodynamics
• deep Ocean Hydrothermalism
• ocean cycle of trace metals and carbon
• ocean circulation and satellite altimetry
• monitoring and dynamics of ice caps using satellite techniques

• "John Davis Budhue" fund of the Meteoritical Society, 1976
• Clarke Medal of the American Geochemical Society, 1982
• Member of Academia Europea since 1988
• "Group Achievement Award" of NASA, 1993, 1994
• Médaille d'Argent du CNRS, 1993
• Prix du Général Muteau, Académie des Sciences, Institut de France, 1994
• Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite, 1995
• Grand Prix de l’Académie de l’Air et de l’Espace, 1996
• Correspondant of Académie des Sciences since 1997
• Fridjof Nansen Medal of European Geophysical Society, 1998
• William T. Pecora Prize (NASA) for Topex-Poséidon, 1998
• Prize Dargelos of Ecole Polytechnique, 1999
• Member of Académie des Technologies since 2000
• Légion d’Honneur, 2003

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