Research areas

• El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
• ENSO dynamics and physical mechanisms, role of the atmosphere, scale interactions, role of intra-seasonal variability
• Evaluation of ENSO in state-of-the-art climate models
• ENSO in a changing climate
• Current related projects: METRO, EL PASO, EUCLIPSE

• Role of the ocean in climate variability and climate change

• Decadal predictability of the climate
• Current related projects: EPIDOM, L-IPSL

• Development of Earth System Models
• Common Information Model (CIM) for describing climate models, simulation and data (CMIP5)
• Software infrastructures, modelling frameworks, physical interfaces
• Current related projects: METAFOR, IS-ENES , ENES

Community activities

• Meeting organisation:
• CLIVAR/PAGES "Using paleo-climate model/data comparisons to constrain future projections", Hawaii March 2012
• CLIVAR Workshop "New strategies for evaluating ENSO processes in climate models", Paris Nov. 2010
• Colloque "Prévisibilité du climat tropical", Toulouse 2010
• Royal Met. Soc. annual meeting 2009

• Convener, EGU ENSO session (since 2008)
• Member of NERC Peer Review College (since 2010)
• Lead, ENSO metrics group, CLIVAR Pacific Panel (since 2008)

• IPCC service:
• Lead Author, WG1 IPCC AR5, Chapter "Model evaluation" (2013)
• Expert Reviewer, WG1 IPCC AR4 (2007)
• Contributing Author, WG1 IPCC TAR (2001)

• Member of the European Geophysical Union (EGU), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the American Meterological Society (AMS) and Associate Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS, UK)

• Contributor, EU Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Climate (since 2011)
• Coordinator, METAFOR FP7 project (since 2008) 
• Co-leader, Climate Variability and Impacts (VARCLIM) Group, LOCEAN, IPSL (since 2008)
• Co-leader, Tropical Group, NCAS-Climate, Univ. Reading (since 2008)

• Member, Conseil de l'OSU IPSL (2007-2010)
• Member, Comité Scientifique LEFE/IMAGO (Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers) (since 2009)
• "Decadal predictability" Work Package leader, Labex IPSL (since 2011)
• Outreach and general public involvement