Guy Pierre Brasseur

A native of Belgium, Professor Guy P Brasseur holds two engineering degrees and a doctorate in aeronomy from the Free University of Brussels, where his PhD dissertation dealt with the effects of nitrogen oxides on stratospheric ozone. He completed his postdoctoral work at the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, where he worked on advanced models of photochemistry and chemical transport in the middle atmosphere.

Between 1977 and 1981, Professor Brasseur served as an elected member of the Belgian House of Representatives and as a delegate to both the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg, France, and the Western European Union in Paris.

Professor Brasseur's community leadership posts have included serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Geophysical ResearchAtmospheres, and as Chair of the International Atmospheric Chemistry Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. He is a former Chair of the IGBP's Scientific Committee, which promotes Earth system science at the international level, with particular focus on the developing world. Professor Brasseur is also a past president of the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union.

In January 2006, Professor Brasseur left the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg to return to the National Center for Atmospheric Research located in Boulder, Colorado, accepting the role as NCAR Associate Director for the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory.

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