Jeanfrancois Leon

Jean-François Léon was born in Saint-Brieuc, France, in 1973. He received the Ph.D. degree in atmospheric science and air pollution chemistry from Paris VII University, Paris, France in 2000. He came to Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, Lille, France, in 2001 on a Centre National d'Etudes Spatiale (CNES) Fellowship. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Université Lille I, Lille France. His experience is principally in the area of aerosol remote sensing. His research interests concern the cycle of aerosols in the atmosphere and their interactions with the radiative budget, and the regional and global climate.