IRD's new Scientific Council elects its president

15 members of the Scientific Council (SC) were appointed on May 13 by IRD CEO Valérie Verdier, by order of Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and Philippe Baptiste, Minister for Higher Education and Research. This appointment follows the election of 15 members representing IRD staff and personnel associated with the Institute's activities, which took place in January 2025.

The 30 members met at IRD headquarters in Marseille to elect a new president, with Denise Pires de Carvalho becoming Chairman and Laurent Dagorn Vice-Chairman.

The 30 members of the new Scientific Advisory Board

Appointed members :

• Denise Pires de Carvalho, President of the Scientific Advisory Board - Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Brazil
  Specialty: medicine, endocrinology
• Yolanda Aixela-Cabre - Senior scientist, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades, Spain
  Specialities: historical and cultural anthropology
• Jean-Marc Daniel - Executive Vice President, Strategy, Ifremer, Brest, France
  Specialities: geosciences
• Diégane Diouf - Professor, Rector, Université du Sine Saloum El Hadj Ibrahima Niass (USSEIN), Senegal
  Specialities: agroecology, microbiology, ecophysiology
• Philippe Gervais-Lambony - Professor, University of Paris Nanterre, LAVUE
  Specialities: human geography
• Silvana Hidalgo - Professor, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Instituto Geofísico, Ecuador
  Specialty: volcanology
• Marie-Agnès Jacques - Research Director, INRAE, IRHS, Angers
  Specialty: plant pathology
• Fatima Karbou - Research Director, Météo-France, CNRM, Centre d'études de la neige, Grenoble
  Specialty: spatial remote sensing of land surfaces
• Marcel Kuper - Research Executive, CIRAD, G-EAU, Montpellier
  Specialty: water governance
• Thi Phuong Quynh Le - Senior scientist, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Institute of Chemistry, Department of Natural Compounds and Environmental Protection, Vietnam
  Specialty: biogeochemistry of hydrosystems
• Flávia Lucena Fredou - Professor, Fisheries Ecology, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil
  Specialty: biological oceanography
• Sophie Proust - Executive Director, Program Agency, Inria, Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France
  Specialty: digital
• Abdelfettah Sifeddine - Research Director, IRD, LOCEAN, IRD representative in Brazil
  Specialty: geosciences
• Rima Sleiman - Professor, Vice President Research, Inalco, Department of Arabic Studies, Paris
  Specialties: Arabic language and literature
• Christine Solnon - Professor, INSA de Lyon, CITI, Lyon
  Specialty: computer science
• Abdoulaye Toure - Professor, Director of CERFIG, Guinea
  Specialty: epidemiology, public health

Elected members:

• Laurent Dagorn, Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board - Research Director, IRD, MARBEC, Montpellier
  Specialties: fisheries ecology
• Véronique Anton Leberre - Research Director, CNRS, Écologie marine tropicale des océans Pacifique et Indien, La Réunion
  Specialties: environmental microbiology
• Élodie Chapuis - Research Associate, IRD, MIVEGEC, Montpellier
  Specialties: ecology and evolution
• Tiphaine Chevallier - Research Director, IRD, Eco&Sols, Montpellier
  Specialties: agronomy, soil science
• Sandrine Chifflet - Research Engineer, IRD, MIO, Marseille
  Specialties: geochemistry
• Marie-Christine Combes - Research Engineer, IRD, DIADE, Montpellier
  Specialized in plant biology
• Cédrice Jamet - Senior Lecturer, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, LOG, Wimereux
  Specialty: remote sensing, marine optics
• Frédéric Lancien - Senior Lecturer, University of Western Brittany, LEMAR, Brest
  Specialty: ecophysiology of marine organisms
• Isabelle Morlais - Research Director, IRD, MIVEGEC, Montpellier
  Specialty: health ecology
• Elena Ormeño Lafuente - Research Associate, CNRS, IMBE, Marseille
  Specialty: environmental biosciences
• Benjamin Pillot - Research Fellow, IRD, Espace-Dev, Montpellier
  Specialty: energy, modeling
• Marc Pouilly - Research Director, IRD, BOREA, IRD representative in Bolivia
  Specialty: aquatic ecology
• Sonia Rousse - Research Associate, IRD, GET, Toulouse
  Specialty: geophysics
• Christèle Verniere - Research Engineer, IRD, QualiSud, Montpellier
  Specialty: nutrition, food science, food technology