Prof. Dr. Guy Brasseur

Director of the Climate Service Center

Guy Brasseur

Since July 1st 2009 Guy Brasseur is the director of the Climate Service Center. Before he was associate director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado, and head of NCARs Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL). From 1999 to 2006 he was director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, and the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ). Guy Brasseur was a Coordinating Lead Author for the fourth Assessment Report (Working Group 1) of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. The Belgian scientist was chair of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP), he is doctor honoris causa of the universities Paris VII, Oslo and Athens and has been honoured for his scientific work several times. Currently he gives lectures at the University of Hamburg and the Free University of Brussels. In the past he was visiting lecturer in Kyoto, São Paulo, Beijing, Wuppertal und Paris, inter alia.