Director of Research IRD – French Research Institute for Sustainable Development. MARBEC, Montpellier University, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, Sète, France. A marine ecologist, he is a research director at the IRD (French Research Institute for Sustainable Development) and the IRD representative to the European Commission in Brussels. He is President of the Scientific Council of the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco. He has published more than 150 articles in key international journals (Science, PNAS, TREE, Ecology Letters, etc.) and produced 21 books or book chapters. He has received several awards, including the Philip Morris National Science Prize in 1991 (Life Science Prize), the French Oceanography Medal obtained in 1995 from the Scientific Committee of the Oceanography Museum of Monaco, the Gilchrist Medal obtained in 2002 (South African Marine Award) and the 2012 Trophy for the best scientific achievement at Ifremer, the scientific achievement of the IRD in 2013 and the Tregouboff Prize of the Academy of Sciences in 2014, Paris. He is a Knight of the Legion of Honour and a Knight of the Order of Saint Charles of Monaco. He is the author of the book Une mer sans poissons, published by Calmann-Levy and translated into Japanese, Chinese and Catalan in 2008, and of Mange tes méduses, published by Odile Jacob with Daniel Pauly in 2013 and translated into English in 2021.
Man’s condition, his projects and collaboration with others on tasks that strengthen man’s totality, are new issues which require genuine inspiration. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1963 [19…
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