BCMT

Governance

Statutorily, the BCMT Director is the IPGP Director, Marc Chaussidon (since March 2016).

The main executive body of the BCMT is its Management Committee, which meets about once a year and is composed of four members (or their representatives):

  • Marc Chaussidon, Director of IPGP,
  • Vincent Lesur, Director of IPGP Magnetic Observatories,
  • Jean-François Girard, Director of EOST,
  • Aude Chambodut, Director of EOST Magnetic Observatories.

Representatives of the funding agencies (CNRS-INSU, IPEV, CNES and CEA) and of French geomagnetism research laboratories are often invited to participate to Management Committee meetings.

The main advisory body of the BCMT is its Scientific Council, set up in 2009. The BCMT Scientific Council is composed of nine members:

  • Kusumita Arora (NGR, India),
  • Jean-Paul Boy (EOST, Strasbourg, France),
  • Dominique Jault (ISTerre, Grenoble, France),
  • Monika Korte (GFZ, Germany),
  • Anne Le Friant (IPGP, Paris, France),
  • Roman Leonhardt (Leiter Conrad Observatorium, Vienna, Austria),
  • Aurelie Marchaudon (OMP,Toulouse, France),
  • Alexandra Pais (UC, Coimbra, Portugal),
  • Jakub Velimsky (CUNI, Prague, Czech Republic).

The Scientific Council meets every two years and produces observations and recommendations compiled in written reports:

  • 2024-2028

  • 2019-2023

  • 2014-2018

  • 2010-2012