UCLouvain - ELIC

Societies

Treasurer of INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) 2007-
Secretary of the Belgian National Committee BELQUA [Royal Academies of Sciences and the Arts of Belgium] 2014 -
Editor-in-chief of Climate of the Past
President of the Belgian National Committee BELQUA [Royal Academies of Sciences and the Arts of Belgium] 2006 - 2014
Secretary of BELQUA (Belgian Society on Quaternary Research) 1998 - 2006 .
President of the INQUA Commission on Palaeoclimate (International Union for Quaternary Research) 1999-2003.
Secretary of the INQUA Commission on Palaeoclimate (International Union for Quaternary Research) 1995-1999.
Member of the editorial board of Quaternary International, Climate of the Past
Member of EGU, AGU and EUROSCIENCE
Associated member of Comité National Belge de Géodésie et de Géophysique

Visiting Appointments

Visiting Research Scientist at Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (Gif-S-Yvette, France)
Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall (University of Cambridge, UK)
visiting Research scientist at Godwin Laboratory (University of Cambridge, UK)
Chercheur Associé CNRS, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Géophysique de l'Environnement, Saint Martin d’Hères (France)
Visiting professor at Université BORDEAUX 1, Département de Géologie et Océanographie, Bordeaux (France)
Chercheur CNRS at UMS832 OSUG, Saint Martin d’Hères (France)
Visiting professor at Université Joseph Fourrier, Saint Martin d’Hères (France)

Other activities

Convener of symposium ' Paleoclimatology : variability at Milankovitch scales' at the XXV EGS General assembly, Nice, 25-29 April 2000.
Convener of symposium ' Paleoclimatology : variability at Milankovitch scales' at the XXV II EGS General assembly, Nice, 21-26 April 2002
Organisation of the BELQUA Workshop 'Quaternary Research in Belgium', Louvain-la-Neuve, 4 December 2003.
Co-organisation of the 2nd BELQUA Workshop Tervuren, 13 May 2004
Convener of the symposium 'Marine isotope stage 11 - an equivalent to the Holocene?' at the 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, 20-28 August 2004.
Co-convener of symposia 'Lake systems: sedimentary archives of climate change and tectonics' and ‘Late Quaternary marine, terrestrial and ice core records, and the north-south connection’ at the EGU General assembly, Vienna, 2-7 April 2006.
Co-organisation of the 3rd BELQUA Workshop Bruxelles, 12 March 2007.
Co-convener of symposa ‘Assessment of climate events in lake sediments’ at the EGU General assembly, Vienna, 15-20 April 2007.
Co-convener of symposa ‘Assessment of climate events in lake sediments: deciphering climate, tectonic or anthropic influence’ at the EGU General assembly, Vienna, 13-18 April 2008.
Co-organisation of the Annual BELQUA Workshop Bruxelles, 3 March 2009.
Co-convener of symposa ‘Assessment of climate events in lake sediments: deciphering climate, tectonic or anthropic influence’ at the EGU General assembly, Vienna, 19-24 April 2009.
Co-organisation of the Annual BELQUA Workshop Bruxelles, 2 March 2010.
Co-convener of symposia ‘Assessment of climate events in lake sediments: deciphering climate, tectonic or anthropic influence’at the EGU General assembly, Vienna, 2-7 May 2010.
Session conveners of the INQUA Congress 2011 Bern, « Climate changes over the last millennium”. Bern, 21-27 July 2011.
Co-convener of symposia ‘Palaeoclimate records in lakes’at the EGU General assembly, Vienna, 22-27 April 2012.
Co-convener of symposia ‘Paleoclimates records in continental archives’ at the EGU General assembly, Vienna, 7-12 April 2013.
Co-convener of symposia ‘Paleoclimates records in continental archives’ at the EGU General assembly, Vienna, 27 April - 2 May 2014.
Co-convener of symposia ‘Paleoclimate and environmental records in Quaternary continental archives’ at the EGU General assembly, Vienna, 12-17 April 2015.