Jean Jouzel

Jean Jouzel's career occurred mostly at the CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique), the French nuclear public organization. In 1991 he became vice-president of LMCE, the CEA laboratory dedicated to environment and climate; in 1995 he became its research director. In 1998 he became director of climate research of the LSCE, which resulted from the fusion of LMCE with another environmental research laboratory. From 2001 to 2008 he was director of the IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace), a major federative laboratory on climate research in the Paris region, including CEA LMCE-LSCE.{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/french-embassy-3 |title=UCL–French Embassy Conférence-Débat Series 2010/2011 |date=4 November 2010 |publisher=University College London |access-date=12 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208222230/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/french-embassy-3 |archive-date= 8 December 2010 }}

He has focussed his research on isotopic modelling, especially water isotopes for reconstruction of past climate from ice cores. After the 1970s, he combined his effort with the prominent French glaciologist Claude Lorius and he has contributed to the project of deep ice drilling in Antarctica, first in Vostok, then in EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica), which he led from 1995 to 2001, producing 800,000 years of climate history.{{cite web |title=Jean Jouzel |date=December 2002 |url=http://www.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/jean-jouzel |publisher=CNRS |access-date=19 December 2019}}

From 2002 to 2015 Jean Jouzel was vice-chair of the Scientific Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Jean Jouzel has supported socialist candidates, including Benoît Hamon for the French Republic presidential elections occurred in 2017{{cite web |last1=Valéry |first1=Laramée de Tannenberg |title=Pourquoi le climatologue Jean Jouzel soutient Hamon |url=https://www.euractiv.fr/section/climat/news/poourquoi-le-climatologue-jean-jouzel-soutient-hamon/ |publisher=Euractive |access-date=19 December 2019 |date=27 March 2017}} and Anne Hidalgo, for whom he was chair of the support committee for the Paris mayoral elections of 2020.{{cite news |title=INFO EUROPE 1 – Climatologist Jean Jouzel to chair Anne Hidalgo support committee for municipal elections |url=https://www.en24.news/2019/12/info-europe-1-climatologist-jean-jouzel-to-chair-anne-hidalgo-support-committee-for-municipal-elections.html |access-date=19 December 2019 |date=17 December 2019 |archive-date=19 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191219230712/https://www.en24.news/2019/12/info-europe-1-climatologist-jean-jouzel-to-chair-anne-hidalgo-support-committee-for-municipal-elections.html |url-status=usurped }}

Jean Jouzel has received many scientific or public awards.{{cite web |title=Jean Jouzel |url=https://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/contacts/j/jean-jouzel.html |publisher=KPMG |date=2019-09-16 |access-date=2019-12-19 |archive-date=2019-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191219225209/https://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/contacts/j/jean-jouzel.html |url-status=dead }}

• 1997 - Milutin Milankovic Medal.{{cite web |url= https://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/milutin-milankovic/ |title= EGU - Awards & medals - Milutin Milankovic Medal |author= |publisher= European Geosciences Union |access-date= 18 May 2018 }}
• 2002 - CNRS Gold Medal, the highest French scientific award, jointly with Claude Lorius
• 2003 - Roger Revelle Medal
• 2012 - Vetlesen Prize, shared with Susan Solomon.{{cite web|url=https://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/2013/susan-solomon-wins-vetlesen-prize|title=Susan Solomon wins Vetlesen Prize - MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences|website=eapsweb.mit.edu|access-date=2018-08-14|archive-date=2020-08-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807222817/https://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/2013/susan-solomon-wins-vetlesen-prize|url-status=dead}}
• 2015 - Leonardo da Vinci Award from European Academy of Sciences.
• 2016 - Foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.{{citation|url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/may-3-2016-NAS-Election.html|title=National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected|department=News from the National Academy of Sciences|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|date=May 3, 2016|access-date=2016-05-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506052951/http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/may-3-2016-NAS-Election.html|archive-date=May 6, 2016|url-status=dead}}.
• 2017 - Member of the French Academy of Sciences.
• 2023 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award[https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/ BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2023]

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• {{cite book |author1=Jouzel, Jean |author2=Claude Lorius |author3=Dominique Raynaud |title=The white planet : the evolution and future of our frozen world |location=Princeton, N.J. |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2012}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20040619014932/http://www.cnrs.fr/cw/fr/pres/compress/medailleOr2002/Page01.html Biography in French] or [https://web.archive.org/web/20040618225735/http://www.cnrs.fr/cw/en/pres/compress/medailleOr2002/Page01.html English]

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