Biographical sketch

Dominique Jault has been a CNRS research associate, and then senior researcher since 1991. He worked at IPGP (Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris) up to 1997, then moved, together with H.-C. Nataf and Ph. Cardin, to LGIT (Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et Tectonophysique, now merged into ISTerre) at the University Joseph-Fourier of Grenoble (now merged into University Grenoble Alpes). He was head of LGIT from 06/2002 to 12/2006. He has spent one year at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (1994) and another year at the ETH Institute of Geophysics (Zürich), where he was a guest professor (2011-2012).

Dominique Jault graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (1985) and Ecole Nationale des Sciences Géographiques (1987). He completed his PhD at the Institut de Physique du Globe (University Paris 7, 1990) where he also obtained his habilitation degree (1995).

Jault has been awarded the CNFGG Geophysical PhD thesis prize (1991), the CNRS Bronze medal (1995), the French Academy of Sciences Madame Victor Noury Prize (2004), and the EGU (European Geophysical Union) Petrus Peregrinus medal (2013). He has shared the 2021 Ampere Prize of the French Academy of Sciences with the other scientists who are members of the ISTerre Geodynamo team. He was elected as a Fellow of the AGU (American Geophysical Union) in 2011.