Jérôme Benveniste

Jérôme Benveniste received the Ph.D. degree in oceanography from space from the University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, in 1989. After a postdoctoral in space data assimilation in ocean models at MIT, Boston, MA, USA, he moved to the European Space Agency (ESA). He has been at the ESA Earth Observation Data Centre near Rome, Italy, since 1992, where he is in charge of the ERS-1, ERS-2, ENVISAT, CryoSat, Sentinel-3, and Sentinel-6 radar altimetry data exploitation. He interacts with ESA Principal Investigators, organizes scientific symposia, and regularly launches Research and Development projects, including Gravity field and steady state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) data exploitation. He was recognized as a senior advisor at ESA in 2008. He launched and monitors the Climate Change Initiative Sea Level Project (2009) and its current sequel focused on the Coastal Zone, as well as other projects on Sea Level Budget Closure, Runoff, River Discharge, Ocean Heat Content, Easter Boundary Upwelling Systems, Coastal oceanography, and Coastal Hazards. Dr. Benveniste is the coeditor of a Springer book on Coastal Zone Radar Altimetry, published in 2011. He is an Editor of a peer-reviewed Scientific Journal and a Guest-Editor of five Journal Special Issues.