ResearchGate D-4508-2014, ORCID: 0000-0002-8794-5810

I am a self-motivated third-age researcher cooperating with the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (Rome, Italy), Edgeryders (Brussels, Belgium) and the Ronin Institute (Montclair, NJ, USA). I retired in 2019 as manager of EU science programs, working from 1991 to 2019 at the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission. After graduating as a Physical Oceanographer (Diploma 1980, University Kiel, Germany), I obtained a Docteur ès Sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (Switzerland) in 1986, studying the dynamics of Lake Geneva. Then, I researched coastal seas at the University of Hamburg (Germany). My passions are societal geosciences, the geophysical fluid dynamics of oceans, seas, lakes and rivers, and sustainable development paths. During the last decade, I published about human-geosphere intersections such as geo-societal practices (citizen science, governance arrangements, narratives) and intricate notions such as Anthropocene and sense-making or engineering global change.