Mioara Mandea

Mioara Mandea is currently Programme Manager for the Solid Earth Observation / Directorate for Strategy and Programmes of Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (French Space Agency), Paris.

Mioara Mandea has a broad international education and has worked in Romania, France, and Germany. She graduated in Engineering in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Bucharest before obtaining doctorates from the University of Bucharest in geophysics and geophysical prospecting in 1993 and from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in internal geophysics in 1996. In addition, she received the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from the University Paris VII in 2001. She worked with geosciences institutions and universities in Romania (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Bucharest), in France (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), and Germany (Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, University of Braunschweig and University of Potsdam).

Mioara Mandea’s research interests mainly concern measuring, mapping, and understanding the multitude of magnetic fields encountered in near Earth and near Earth-like planets. She has concentrated her work in some major directions, participating in the general effort of measuring Earth’s magnetic field from ground to space, developing new tools to model the geomagnetic field and its secular variations (with a special emphasis on geomagnetic jerks), or using the geomagnetic information to determine physical properties in the deep Earth’s interior (with special studies on the lower mantle conductivity or motions at the core-mantle boundary). Her fields of research also include geopotential field mapping, on global or regional scales, with important implications for the understanding of rapid changes within the Earth’s system. Mioara Mandea has published some 250 papers (some 150 being publications in ISI journals, the rest being contributions in further journals, books and chapters in books, proceedings and reports), and has been involved in organising more than 50 workshops and conferences. She has also lead several multi-partner research projects or work packages within projects at the national and European levels. She has supervised more than10 PhD students.

Mioara Mandea is currently Chair of the Outreach Committee of European Geosciences Union, where she previously served as General Secretary (2012-2016) and President of the Division Earth Magnetism and Rock Physics (2007-2011). She is also General Secretary of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA), President of the Geophysical Maps Commission of the Commission for the Geological Map of the World, and Chair of the Science Committee – International Space Science Institute (ISSI). She has been granted the Van Straelen prize (French Geological Society), the Hepites prize (Romanian Academy), International Award of AGU, and Petrus Peregrinus Medal of EGU. She is a Titular Member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists, Member of the Academia Europaea, Member of the Royale Académie de Belgique and received the prestigious French title of “Chevalier – Ordre National du Mérite”.

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