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Jean Jouzel, (born 5 March 1947) is a French glaciologist and climatologist. He is an authority on major climatic shifts based on his analysis of Antarctic and Greenland ice. He received with Claude Lorius the CNRS gold medal, the highest French scientific award.
He has spent his research career in CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique) which is the French nuclear public organization. In 1991 he became vice president of LMCE which is a CEA laboratory dedicated to environment and climate; in 1995 research director; in 1998 director of climate research of LSCE which resulted from the fusion of LMCE with another environmental research laboratory; from 2001 to 2008 director of IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace) which is a major federative laboratory on climate research in Paris region, including CEA LSCE.
In 2016 he was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences.