Vincent‐Henri PEUCH

Vincent‐Henri Peuch is Director of the Copernicus

Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and Deputy

Director of the Copernicus Department at the European

Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

He oversees the management of a large body of scientific

and technical activities, which underpins the operational

delivery of information products about air quality and

atmospheric composition worldwide. He has been

involved since 2003 in the design, development and

implementation of Copernicus, the flagship Earth

Observation programme of the European Union

(formerly known as GMES, Global Monitoring for

Environment and Security). A native of France, he

obtained his PhD from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon

in 1996. He worked as a scientist for Météo‐France for 15

years before joining ECMWF in 2011 to lead the

precursor European R&D activities that eventually led to CAMS. He is an internationally

respected scientist working on numerical modelling and data assimilation of air quality and

atmospheric composition. To date, he has co‐authored over 95 peer‐reviewed publications and

advised 12 PhD theses. He serves or has served in a number of national and international

scientific and advisory committees, including for the European Environment Agency and the

World Meteorological Organisation.