Joël Guiot

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Joël Guiot is CNRS research director in the European Centre for Research and Training in Environmental Geosciences (CEREGE, Aix-Marseille University, France). His main research is on impact of past, present and future climatic changes on Mediterranean ecosystems, in particular on the Mediterranean forest, using dendrochronological series and tree-growth modelling. In 2008 he co-founded the ECCOREV network (Continental Ecosystems and Environemental Risks) to promote interdisciplinarity in environmental sciences, in particular with social sciences, and in 2012 the Laboratory of Excellence OT-Med to study of the risks related to climate change and natural hazards in the Mediterranean Basin. He launched in 2015 with W. Cramer, the Mediterranean group of experts on environmental and climate changes (MedECC), to transfer scientific knowledge on climatic change to the society actors of both sides of the Mediterranean. He is a lead author for the IPCC special report on the impact of a 1.5°C global warming. He received the silver medal of CNRS in 2005.