Climate scientist Valérie Masson-Delmotte has been awarded an honorary doctorate
Valerie Masson-Delmotte is a French climate scientist and director of research at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), where she works at the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE). She uses data on past climate conditions to test climate change models and has contributed to several reports for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body responsible for summarising and assessing the science relating to global warming. Valérie Masson-Delmotte has now been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Science and Technology.
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Gabriele Messori, Professor of Meteorology, welcomes the news and emphasises how closely her research is linked to the research carried out at the Department of Earth Sciences.
– Valérie’s research uniquely links studies of past climate, our understanding of today’s climate and the modelling of future climate. For example, she has used information on past climate conditions to interpret and improve climate forecasts. Her research has clear links to several research areas at the Department of Earth Sciences. Thomas Stevens, senior lecturer in physical geography, and Jorijntje Henderiks, professor of marine micropalaeontology, study past climate conditions, whilst researchers in meteorology, physical geography and hydrology, amongst others, investigate the climate of today and the future. For example, Anna Rutgersson and I are conducting research in meteorology, Veijo Pohjola in physical geography, and Giuliano Di Baldassarre in hydrology and environmental analysis.
Find out more about the appointment of new honorary doctors at the Faculty of Science and Technology: https://www.uu.se/en/faculty/science-and-technology/news/archive/2026-10-14-new-honorary-doctors-at-the-faculty-of-science-and-technology