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Biography: "Philippe Ciais studied Physics at Ecole Normale Sup\xE9rieure and received\ \ a PhD in 1991 entitled \u201CHolocene climate record of Antarctic ice cores\u201D\ . In 1992 he was a post-doctoral fellow at NOAA in Boulder, Colorado, and investigated\ \ how 13C and 18O isotopes in atmospheric CO2 can be used to constrain terrestrial\ \ carbon fluxes. He also designed the first three-dimensional simulation model\ \ of 18O in CO2, an isotopic tracer of the water cycle coupled with CO2 uptake\ \ by plant photosynthesis.\nAfter 1994, Philippe Ciais returned to France and\ \ carried out research into the inverse modeling of CO2 and CH4 fluxes at the\ \ surface of the Earth, based on transport models and a global network of surface\ \ in-situ stations. The most important finding was that tropical land fluxes have\ \ a dominating control on the global variability of the CO2 growth rate, while\ \ wetland emissions control the variability control the CH4 growth rates. Under\ \ the leadership of Philippe Ciais, this activity has been developed at LSCE into\ \ a research team of 30 scientists. In parallel, Philippe Ciais led the building\ \ of the French greenhouse gas atmospheric monitoring network, going from two\ \ stations in 1992 to 25 stations today, and became a key component of the ICOS\ \ European Infrastructure (http://www.icos-infrastructure.eu/). This line of research\ \ was accompanied by the coordination of national and European projects: AEROCARB\ \ and TACOS in FP-5, and the CARBOEUROPE atmospheric component in FP-6. \nFrom\ \ 2005 to 2013, Philippe Ciais devoted his time to the coordination of the Integrated\ \ Carbon Observation System (ICOS) large European research infrastructure. Going\ \ from national and European auditions, to technical preparation work, and the\ \ negotiation of the governance and funding leverage involving stakeholders and\ \ ministry representatives in 17 countries, ICOS successfully became a flagship\ \ research structure in the area of climate change, with a pre-operational network\ \ of 60 stations and a turnover of 20 M\u20AC per year. At that time, Philippe\ \ Ciais also acted as co-chair of the GEO task force on integrated carbon observations.\n\ Successively head of department, and associate director of the Laboratoire des\ \ Sciences du Climat - LSCE between 2002 and 2017 he has been in charge of the\ \ management and the development of the research strategy for about 100 people\ \ for an annual budget of 10 M\u20AC across three tutelary institutions, the CEA\ \ French Atomic Energy Commission, the CNRS National Research Council and the\ \ UVSQ Universiy of Versailles St Quentin. \nPhilippe Ciais became co-chair of\ \ the Global Carbon Project (http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/) international\ \ organization in 2009. He had the opportunity to contribute to several synthesis\ \ of recent trends in the carbon cycle, characterized by the recent fast growth\ \ of emissions and by a slowing trend of natural sinks, a finding that had a large\ \ impact in the media. He also acted as Convening Lead Author of the IPCC Working\ \ Group 1, for the Carbon Cycle chapter of the 5th IPCC Assessment Report.\nPhilippe\ \ Ciais continued to have a research activity during the last twenty years, mainly\ \ on the relationships between ecosystem CO2 fluxes and climate, combining terrestrial\ \ biosphere models with satellite and eddy-covariance observations. He took part\ \ in the set up and interpretation of one of the first coupled carbon-climate\ \ simulation with the IPSL climate model, and pioneered the incorporation of cultivated\ \ ecosystems into a terrestrial biosphere model. By combining eddy-flux and remote\ \ sensing data, with models, Philippe Ciais analyzed the responses of temperate\ \ forests to drought during the summer 2003 heat wave (Ciais et al. 2005; Nature)\ \ and of boreal ecosystems during warmer autumns (Piao et al. 2008; Nature). These\ \ two publications received a lot of citations. A striving collaboration with\ \ Beijing University has been maintained with the SINO-FRENCH SOFIE research institute\ \ led by Shilong Piao and Philippe Ciais (https://wiki.lsce.ipsl.fr/pku/doku.php).\n\ Currently 52 years old, Philippe Ciais has contributed more than 600 publications\ \ in A-ranking journals over the past 17 years. From the ISI web of science, his\ \ H-index is 102. He was ranked as the most productive scientific author in the\ \ field of climate change publications, and among the authors who contributed\ \ to 5 of the 100 most influential papers in this field (http://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the-most-cited-climate-change-papers)" Credit Name: null Education: - Department: physics Role: Aggregation end-date: 09/1989 organization: "Ecole Normale Sup\xE9rieure de St Cloud" organization-address: St Cloud, FR start-date: 06/1986 url: null Emails: [] Employment: - Department: null Role: null end-date: organization: "Universit\xE9 Paris-Saclay" organization-address: Gif sur Yvette, FR start-date: 01/2016 url: null - Department: LSCE Role: Research director end-date: organization: "Commissariat \xE0 l'\xC9nergie Atomique et aux \xC9nergies Alternatives" organization-address: Gif sur Yvette, FR start-date: 02/1994 url: null - Department: null Role: Postdoctoral fellow end-date: 02/1994 organization: NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory organization-address: Boulder, CO, US start-date: 01/1992 url: null Family Name: Ciais Fundings: - end-date: 09/2021 organization: H2020 European Research Council organization-address: Brussels, FR start-date: 09/2014 title: Imbalance-P type: grant url: null - end-date: 08/2017 organization: National Agency for Research organization-address: n/a, FR start-date: 03/2016 title: GHG VERIFICATION type: grant url: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100001665/ANR-16-MRSE-0027/GHG-VERIFICATION - end-date: 10/2018 organization: National Agency for Research organization-address: n/a, FR start-date: 11/2015 title: The two giant rivers of China, trends in water resources due to climate change and human pressure type: grant url: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100001665/ANR-15-CE01-0011/The-two-giant-rivers-of-China-trends-in-water-resources-due-to-climate-change-and-human-pressure Name: Philippe Other Names: [] Research Tags (keywords): - carbon cycle, climate change Works: []