Amaelle Landais-Israël (born 27 July 1977) is a French

glaciologist Glaciology (; ) is the scientific study of glaciers, or, more generally, ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. Glaciology is an interdisciplinary Earth science that integrates geophysics, geology, physical geography, geomorphology, clim ...

and

climatologist Climatology (from Greek , ''klima'', "slope"; and , ''-logia'') or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. Climate concerns the atmospheric ...

. She is research director of the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE) at the

French National Centre for Scientific Research The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 engi ...

(CNRS).

Life

Landais-Israël graduated from

ESPCI Paris ESPCI Paris (officially the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris, , ''The City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution'') is a grande école founded in 1882 by the city of ...

in 2000. In 2004, she finished her doctorate in

oceanology Oceanography (), also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the ocean, including its physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of top ...

meteorology Meteorology is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and short-term atmospheric phenomena (i.e. weather), with a focus on weather forecasting. It has applications in the military, aviation, energy production, transport, agricultur ...

and the environment, supervised by

Jean Jouzel Jean Jouzel (born 5 March 1947) is a French glaciologist and climatologist. He has mainly worked on the reconstruction of past climate derived from the study of the Antarctic and Greenland ice. Career Jean Jouzel's career occurred mostly at the C ...

and Valérie Masson-Delmotte. Entitled ''La variabilité climatique rapide en atlantique nord: l'apport des isotopes de l'air piégé dans la glace du Groenland'' it explored how atmospheric

isotope Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or ''nuclides'') of the same chemical element. They have the same atomic number (number of protons in their Atomic nucleus, nuclei) and position in the periodic table (and hence belong to the same chemica ...

s trapped in Greenland ice could be used to study rapid variations in the climate of the

North Atlantic The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the Age of Discovery, it was known for ...

. From 2004 to 2006, she did post-doctorate study at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

. In 2007, she was appointed research fellow at CNRS, and became research director at CNRS in 2016.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Landais-Israel, Amaelle Living people 1977 births People from Le Mans French glaciologists French climatologists Women glaciologists Women climatologists 21st-century French scientists 21st-century French women scientists Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University alumni ESPCI Paris alumni Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research