Véronique Dehant#
| Membership Number: | 1942 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1999 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://homepage.oma.be/veroniq/index.php |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2009 Extraordinary Professor at UCL
- since 2004 Part time Lecturer at Université de Nantes, France
- 2000-2009 Part time Professor at UCL
- 1998-2000 Part time Lecturer at UCL
- 1991-1998 Invited Lecturer at UCL
- since 1994 Head of Section at ROB
- since 1993 Project Leader and Senior Research Scientist at ROB
- 1990-1993 Senior Research Scientist at FNRS
- 1986-1990 Post-doctoral Researcher at FNRS
- 1982-1986 Graduate Research Assistant at Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
- Graduate Research Assistant at UCL
Fields of Scholarship
- Geodesy and geophysics, with specific interest in Earth/Mars/Mercury rotation/libration and interior modeling
- Gravity studies of Mars/Venus/Mercury
Honours and Awards
- la Plus Grande Distinction (highest level) for graduation
- la Plus Grande Distinction (highest level) for master
- la Plus Grande Distinction (highest level) for PhD thesis
- Award Charles Lagrange, prix quadriennal de la Classe des Sciences de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts, 1988
- IAG Fellow, 1991
- Bomford Price of IAG, 1999
- Member of the Academia Europaea, 1999
- Vening Meinesz Medal of the European Geophysical Society, 2003
- Descartes Prize of the European Union, 2003
- AGU Fellow, 2007
- “Membre Correspondant” of the BdL (Bureau des Longitudes), 2008
- Bronze Medal (third place, 5000€ donated to the Annual Scholarship Programme of the International Space University (ISU)) for Apophis Mission Design from the Planetary Society, 2008
