Jean-François Minster#
Membership Number: | 233 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Elected: | 1989 |
Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
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)
Fields of Scholarship
- 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
Honours and Awards
- "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