Frederic Parrenin

Senior scientist (so-called "Directeur de Recherche" in French) for CNRS.
Manager of the French-Russian International Lab "Climate and Environments from Ice Archives".
French manager of the European H2020 "Beyond EPICA" project aiming to drill a 1.5 million years ice core in Antarctica (French budget : 750 k€).
Manager of the ANR Project ToBE (Toward Beyond EPICA), aiming at preparing the French community to the arrival of the Beyond EPICA ice core (budget : 680 k€).
Working on Climate Change at IGE (Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement, Grenoble, France), part of the Grenoble-Alpes University.
I am a member of the ICE^3 and CryoDyn teams.
My research fields are ice sheets and paleoclimatic reconstructions from ice cores.
I work especially on the problem of dating the ice and gas bubbles in ice sheets.
I entered Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm) in mathematics.
I was awarded the bronze medal of CNRS in 2008.
I am among the highly cited researchers from Thomson-Reuters since 2014.