 | ANDRÉ BERGER |
Foreign member
Department of Mathematics, Physics and Geoscience
Membership of SASA
Foreign member elected on 2 November 2006
Field of study
Climatology, palaeoclimatology, numerical modelling of climate systems, meteorology and geology of Quaternary
Education
MSc (1971) Massachusetts Institute of Technology; PhD (1973) Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium,
Career
Catholic University of Louvain, full professor of meteorology and climate dynamics (1989); director of the Georges Lemaître Center for Earth and Climate Research (formerly Institut d’Astronomie et de Géophysique G. Lemaître) at the Catholic University of Louvain (1978–2001); visiting professor at the Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussels) (1982–1993)
Membership of other academies
Academia Europaea (1989); Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997); Royal Academy of Belgium (2002); French Academy of Sciences (2003); Royal Astronomical Society, London (2003); The Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (2004); Royal Society of Canada (2007)
Membership of specialist associations
European Geophysical Society, president (2000−2002); International Science Institute; American Geophysical Union; European Geo-Sciences Union; Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture; European Association of Climatologists; Society of Meteorologists of France
Membership of editorial boards
Nature; Transactions of the American Geophysical Union; Earth and Planetary Science; Solar Physics; Geology; Climate Change; Atmospheric Environment; Holocene; Climate Dynamics; Atmosphere, an editor and a member of editorial boards
Awards and recognitions
An Officer of the Legion of Honour (France);
Latsis Prize of the European Science Foundation (2001);
‘Norbert Gerbier-Mumm’, the World Meteorological Organization (1994);
‘Charles Lagrange’, Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (1984);
Prize of the Geophysical section of the Italian Physical Society (1980);
Prize of the Ministry of Science and Culture of France (1975)