François Forget
After defending his thesis on the study of the planet Mars in 1996, François Forget became a CNRS research fellow in 1998. He created the “planétologie” team at the Laboratoire de météorologie dynamique (LMD) in 2003 and then directed the “Système solaire” pole of the Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace from 2009 to 2017. He worked at the NASA between 2004 and 2005 and became CNRS research director at the LMD in 2010.
After defending his thesis on the study of the planet Mars in 1996, François Forget became a CNRS research fellow in 1998. He created the “planétologie” team at the Laboratoire de météorologie dynamique (LMD) in 2003 and then directed the “Système solaire” pole of the Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace from 2009 to 2017. He worked at the NASA between 2004 and 2005 and became CNRS research director at the LMD in 2010. He was elected member of the Académie des sciences in December 2017.