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Philippe CURY is a senior scientist at IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) in France working in marine ecology and fisheries and the IRD representative in Brussels at CLORA (Club des Organismes de Recherche Associés). He is the President of the Scientific Council of the Monaco Institute of Oceanography. He published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles in the main international journals (Science, TREE, Ecology Letters….). He is the author of several books for a large audience ‘Une mer sans poissons’ published by Calmann-Levy and translated into Japanese, Chinese, Catalan and English, ‘the Ocean revealed’ published by CNRS Edition in 2017 and ‘Obstinate Nature’ with Daniel Pauly in 2021,
Administrative status
• Present: Senior research scientist IRD Montpellier
. IRD Europe Representative in Brussels 2015 to 2021
• Research Director (Senior scientist - Grade « Exceptional ») – DRCE2. Civil Servant since 1983.
• Scientific Coordinator of the EUROMARINE Consortium (59 scientific member organisations/22 countries)
• Director of Joint Research Unit EME 212 IRD- Ifremer and UM2 (125 personnel) 2008-2015
• Director of the fisheries Center - CRH (Centre de Recherche Halieutique méditerranéenne et tropicale in Sète - France) 2004-2015
Current address
19 rue de l'Eglise 34570 Murviel les Montpellier Cell : + 33 (0) 6 75 65 46 34. Email: Philippe.Cury@ird.fr
Academic Career
Master in Agriculture and Fisheries « Agronomie Approfondie » from ENSAR (École Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie in Rennes) Rennes, 1979.
Master in Biomathematics « Diplôme d’Étude Approfondie ». Université Paris VII-Jussieu, Paris, 1983.
PhD in Biomathematics, University Paris VII-Jussieu, Paris, 1989.
HDR in Biomathematics, Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (French post-doctoral degree allowing its holder to supervise PhD students), University of Montpellier II, Montpellier 2007
Awards
• Philip Morris Scientific Award for Life Sciences in 1991, Palais de la Découverte, Paris, 1991.
• Medal of the Société d’Océanographie de France 1995 at the Institut Océanographique de Monaco, 1997.
• Medal Gilchrist 2002 contribution to oceanographic research in South Africa (this prize being awarded for the first time to a foreign scientist, Cape Town, 2002.
• Ifremer trophy, prize for scientific achievement ,Paris 2011.
• First prize “Recherche au Sud” IRD prize for scientific achievement, Marseille 2012.
• Prix Tregouboff from the French Academy of Science, Institut de France, Paris 2014.
• Grade de Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. Décret J.O. du 20 mars Ministère de l’Ecologie. Paris 2013.
• Chevalier de l’Ordre Saint Charles par le Prince Albert 2 de Monaco (Highest distinction of Monaco – Prince Albert 2) November 2014.
Chronology of assignments
Since 1980, I worked successively at the CROA-Centre de Recherches Océanologiques in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (1 year) ; PFEG, Pacific Fisheries and Environmental Group de Monterey, California, USA (2 years) ; CRODT, Centre de Recherches Océanographiques in Dakar-Thiaroye, Senegal (6 years) ; PFEG, Pacific Fisheries and Environmental Group de Monterey, California, USA (3 years) ; IRD-Institut français de la recherche scientifique pour le développement en coopération, in Montpellier, France (3 years) ; Cape Town University - Oceanography Department and Marine & Coastal Management in Cape Town, South Africa (6 years), CRH, Centre de Recherche Halieutique méditerranéenne et tropicale in Sète, France (11 years) , CLORA in Brussels (2015-2021) and senior Scientist at MARBEC IRD
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