AN OVERVIEW OF IPSL
The Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, created by Gérard Mégie and his colleagues in the 1990s, owes its name to two fundamental works of Pierre-Simon Laplace, an 18th century mathematician, astronomer and physicist, "L'exposition du système du monde" (The exposition of the world's system) and "Théorie analytique des probabilités" (Analytical theory of probabilities), whose analyses are still relevant today. When the institute was created, its objective was to bring together and coordinate scientific communities in the natural climate sciences in Paris and its suburbs. Initially designed to understand the global climate system, the research at the institute has expanded and diversified, integrating research on regional to local scale phenomena, interfaces with the earth's surface and with ecosystems, which are essential for a good understanding of the system as a whole. The management team is composed of a director and two deputy directors. IPSL provides laboratories with coordination resources and services to develop major projects and to disseminate results. In addition to its observation and its modelling centre, these include: i) services related to the distribution of data (from models and from observations and the associated calculation), As an IPSL staff member, you will be welcomed in one of the IPSL laboratories and fully integrated in the working environment, in compliance with the rules that apply to it.
IPSL IN A NUTSHELL 1 research support unit (UAR) |
