Veronique Dehant
Véronique Dehant

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2025

Earth and Environmental Sciences Division

Belgian

Belgium

Brussels

Véronique Dehant works at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, where she is Senior Researcher in the Operational Directorate "Reference Systems and Planetology". She is also Emeritus Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain). She is an Academician (Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, Science Class) since 2010, Foreign Member of the Paris Academy of Sciences since 2016 and has been awarded several prizes including the Descartes Prize of the European Union in 2003 and the De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart Prize, Prize in Fundamental Exact Sciences among the five FNRS research excellence prizes, in 2020. In 2015, she obtained an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council for her project RotaNut: Rotation and Nutation of a wobbly Earth; and in 2019, an ERC Synergy Grant for her project GRACEFUL (GRavimetry, mAgnetism, rotation, and CorE FLow). The GRACEFUL project, led by Dehant, Mandea, and Cazenave, combines magnetic, gravitational, and rotational data with advanced models to reveal how Earth's core dynamics influence not only its deep interior but also the entire Earth system, including climate, through interconnected fluid and solid layers. Dehant is also involved in processing data from instruments in several space missions, in particular of the RISE experiment (Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment) on board the InSight mission (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) hibernating on the surface of Mars since 2023. She is working on a new ESA (European Space Agency) mission, GENESIS, that will improve reference frame precision and improve climate change and positioning results.