Valérie Laurence Masson-Delmotte#
| Membership Number: | 3306 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.lsce.ipsl.fr/Phocea/Pisp/index.php?nom=valerie.masson |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010-present Senior Scientist, Head of the "climate archives" group (4 teams) at LSCE (staff : 50)
- 1999-2009 Head of the "ice and continent" paleoclimate team at LSCE (staff : 20)
- 1996-1999 Scientist, LSCE
- 1993-1996 PhD thesis, Laboratoire de Modélisation du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif sur Yvette, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Climate variability and change
- Paleoclimate
- Isotope geochemistry
- Ice cores
- Tree rings
- Climate modelling
- Greenland
- Antarctica
- Tibet
- Europe
Honours and Awards
- 2008 European Commission Descartes Prize for transnational collaborative research (EPICA project)
- 2004 Louis D Prize of the France Institute (with Jean-Claude Duplessy)
- 2002 Grand Prix Etienne Roth of the French Academy of Sciences (with Françoise Vimeux)
