Cathy
Clerbaux
Chercheuse en physique de l’atmosphère au CNRS
Senior scientist at Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS)/Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL)
Directeur de recherche CNRS
Co-chair of the TROPO department at LATMOS
Invited teacher at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Affiliate scientist at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Main research topics
2007 - Present
- Head of the leading team (8 PhDs) for the exploitation of IASI data to monitor the atmospheric composition changes.
- Remote sensing expert for the conception of future satellite missions, with contributions on the definition of the instrument design, along with interaction with industry and spatial agencies, such as the French Spatial Agency CNES (as a PI for the IASI-next generation mission), for the European Space Agency (several concepts of missions submitted to the ESA AO), and for Eumetsat (Sentinel 4/Meteosat Third Generation and Sentinel 5/EPS-SG missions).
1993 - 2007
- Definition and simulation studies for the IASI satellite mission: development of retrieval algorithms to measure concentration of trace gases from the radiance spectra.
- First analysis of radiance nadir observation provided by the Japanese IMG/ADEOS mission, in order to derive global distributions for CO and ozone.
- Data assimilation for atmospheric composition.
- CO validation for the ACE-FTS Canadian mission.
- First detection of volcanic plume with the TES/AURA data and from CO pollution arising from cities using the MOPITT/TERRA data.
- Involved as an author in IPCC and WMO reports.
1989 - 1993
- Definition and simulation studies for the IASI satellite mission: development of retrieval algorithms to measure concentration of trace gases from the radiance spectra.
- First analysis of radiance nadir observation provided by the Japanese IMG/ADEOS mission, in order to derive global distributions for CO and ozone.
- Data assimilation for atmospheric composition.
- CO validation for the ACE-FTS Canadian mission.
- First detection of volcanic plume with the TES/AURA data and from CO pollution arising from cities using the MOPITT/TERRA data.
- Involved as an author in IPCC and WMO reports.
Career & Prizes
2016
Affiliate Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
2016
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
2014
2013 - Now
2012 - Now
2010, 2013
2008 - 2013
2005 - 2012
2003 - 2004
1999 - 2008
1995 - 1999
1993 - 1995
Post-doctoral grant fellow from Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Service d’Aéronomie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
1993
Prix Solvay du meilleur mémoire de fin d’études
1990 - 1993
IRSIA/FRIA PhD grant fellow
Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Teaching activities
2008 - Present
Seminar series on Remote sensing
Training classes for MeteoFrance/Lanion, ENSTA/Paris, Masters in Environmental Sciences and international summer schools
2012 - Present
Atmospheric changes and Climate science
Master level, Environmental Sciences
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
2005 - 2011
Atmospheric Physics
Master level, Physics department
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
PhD Students
Sarah Safieddine
LATMOS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France - Now Post-doc at MIT (USA)
Yasmina R’honi
Main supervisor P.F. Coheur, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium - Now Chemistry teacher at the Brussels European School