Thierry Fichefet

Personal details

Belgian citizen, born in Charleroi on 2 December 1961, married, two children.

Education

• Ph.D.  in Sciences, UCLouvain, 1988, with highest honours
• Special Master degree (DEA) in Physics, UCLouvain, 1985, with highest honours.
• "Agrégation de l'enseignement secondaire supérieur", UCLouvain, 1984, with honours.
• Master degree in Physics, UCLouvain, 1983, with highest honours.

Professional appointments

• 2008-present: Full Professor  at UCLouvain
• 2016-2019t: President of the School of Physics of UCLouvain.
• 2010-2012: Head of TECLIM and of the Earth & Climate Division (ELIC) of ELI.
• 2004-2008: Associate Professor  at UCLouvain.
• 2004-2009: Head of of the Georges Lemaître Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (ASTR) of  the Department of Physics of UCLouvain.
• 2004-present: Honorary Research Associate of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research at TECLIM.
• 1993-2004: Part-time Associate Professor at UCLouvain.
• 1998-2003: Part-time Lecturer at UCLouvain.
• 1995-1998: Invited Part-time Lecturer at UCLouvain.
• 1989-2004: Research Associate of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research at ASTR.
• 1989: Senior Research Assistant of the French National Centre for Scientific Research at Météo-France, Toulouse.
• 1988-1989: Research Scientist at ASTR.
• 1984-1988: Research Assistant of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research at ASTR.

Honours and awards

• Member of the Academia Europaea since 2002.
• Adolphe Wetrems Prize (Mathematical and Physical Sciences) of the Royal Academy of Sceinces, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (79th annual period, February 1, 2004 – January 1, 2005).
• Nobel Peace Prize 2007, granted to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC (I was Lead Author of the IPCC Working Group 1 Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports).
• Gérard Mégie Prize 2008 of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France.
• Louis Agassiz Medal 2016 of the Division on Cryospheric Sciences of the European Geophysical Union.