François Forget

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Francois Forget (born in 1967) is a French astrophysicist, specializing in the exploration of the solar system and planetary environments. He is a research director at the CNRS and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. [1]

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Biography

After graduating from ENSTA Paris in 1991 [2] and subsequently defending his thesis on the study of the planet Mars in 1996, François Forget became a CNRS research fellow in 1998. He created the "planetology" team of the Laboratory of Dynamic Meteorology (LMD) in 2003 and then headed the "Solar System" pole of the Pierre-Simon-Laplace Institute from 2009 to 2017. He worked at NASA between 2004 and 2005 and became CNRS Research Director at the LMD in 2010. [3]

Works

François Forget is involved in many space missions such as Mars Express (ESA), ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (ESA), New Horizons (NASA), InSight (NASA) or Rover ExoMars (ESA).

He studies the climate and atmospheres on the telluric planets of the solar system (Mars, Venus, Pluto, Titan, Triton) and on exoplanets. To do this, it has developed digital models designed to simulate environments on these planets in order to analyze space observations, prepare robotic missions, study the habitability of exoplanets and better understand the Earth. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Académie des sciences".
  2. ↑ "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF).
  3. ↑ "François Forget du LMD est élu à l'Académie des sciences". www.insu.cnrs.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 2019-04-13. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  4. ↑ « François Forget, Explorer le Système solaire pour mieux comprendre notre planète », L'Humanité Dimanche, 25 janvier 2018, p. 44-45 (ISSN 1771-1908, lire en ligne)
  5. ↑ "Dix-huit nouveaux membres élus à l'Académie des sciences". www.academie-sciences.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-12-27..
  6. ↑ "David Bates Medal". European Geosciences Union (EGU). Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  7. ↑ "François Forget". European Geosciences Union (EGU). Retrieved 2018-05-12.
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