Pierre Rampal

• Year

  2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

• Program

  Virtual Earth Systems Research Institute (VESRI)

• Institution

  Institut de Géophysique de l’Environnement, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

• Location

  Grenoble, France

Dr. Pierre Rampal is a Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and is based at Institut de Géophysique de l’Environnement, Grenoble – France since 2020. His research focuses on sea ice physics, variability and forecast, with a particular interest in the interactions between sea ice and the other components of the climate system. Prior to CNRS, he was first postdoc at MIT from 2010 and 2012 in Dr Heimbach’s group, before he moved to the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Bergen – Norway where he acted until 2020 as senior researcher and group leader. Among a variety of research activities, he initiated and lead the development of the neXt generation Sea Ice Model – neXtSIM.
He obtained his PhD in 2008 in Glaciology from Grenoble-Alpes University. He is the lead principal investigator of the SASIP – Scale Aware Sea Ice Project – an international effort to better understand the impact of amplified warming in polar regions, through the development of a new sea ice modelling paradigm. He currently serves as a member on the Mission Advisory Group for the Harmony, an ESA Earth Explorer 10 satellite mission candidate to observe land, ice and ocean surface dynamics.