Bertrand Bessagnet

Bertrand Bessagnet (Prof.‐Dr.) joined the European Commission ‐ Joint Research Centre in 2021 Project Officer ‐ Air Policy Analyst. Formerly he worked in Citepa (France) as head of the Atmospheric Pollution, Mobility and TerrItories (POMI) department. Between 2001 and 2018, Bertrand Bessagnet was successively R&D Engineer, Unit Manager and scientific affairs manager at the National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks (INERIS), which he joined in 2001 after completing his doctorate in the field of chemistry and physics of the atmosphere in 2000 at the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse. In 2015, he obtained his HDR in Atmospheric Sciences from Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris) and is affiliated to Sorbonne University. He is also an engineer in Chemical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (DEA and Engineering Diploma obtained in 1997).

Its main skills are: air quality management, air pollution exposure, modeling, pollutant emissions, climate change, meteorology. Bertrand Bessagnet has contributed at the national level to the development of the CHIMERE chemistry transport model, in close collaboration with the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He participated in the management of the air quality platform PREV'AIR, the official national air quality forecasting system in France (www.prevair.org).