- Director of Research, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
- Director of Research, Sorbonne Université
Bertrand Bessagnet is currently Director of Research at CNRS since February 2025. Bertrand Bessagnet worked at ICIMOD (Kathmandu, Nepal) from March 2024 to February 2025 as coordinator of the Air Pollution Action Area.
Previously he worked for three years as Senior Scientist at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and headed the Atmospheric Pollution, Mobility and Territories (POMI) department of Citepa (France) for one year.
In 2019, he worked in Hangzhou (China) to develop air quality management services.
Between 2001 and 2018, Bertrand Bessagnet was successively Research & Development Engineer, Unit Manager and scientific affairs manager at the National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks in France (INERIS), which he joined in 2001 after completing his PhD in the field of chemistry and physics of the atmosphere in 2000 at the University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse).
In 2015, he obtained his certification degree to supervise research (Habilitation à Diriger des recherches) in Atmospheric Sciences from Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris) and he is affiliated to the Sorbonne University.
He is author and co-author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications on air quality management.
Experience
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2025–presentDirector of Research, CNRS IPSL/LMD
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2024–2025Manager, ICIMOD
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2021–2024Research scientist, JRC
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2020–2021Head of department, Citepa
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2019–2020Associate professor, Ecole Polytechnique
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2018–2019Chief Scientist, FUTURIS Ltd.
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2016–2018Chief Scientist, INERIS
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2008–2016Head of Unit, INERIS
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2001–2008Research scientist, INERIS
Education
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2015Sorbonne Université, HDR
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2000Université Paul Sabatier, Doctorat
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1997ENSIGC, Diplome d'Ingénieur
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1997ENSIGC, DEA
Publications
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2021Peer reviewed Publications, 120 publications
Professional Memberships
- Ecole Polytechnique
- Sorbonne Unversité
- CNRS
Contact Bertrand for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Paris
- Website
- LinkedIn: bertrand-bessagnet
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