Xavier Durrieu de Madron, Ph.D

Centre de Recherche et de Formation sur les Environnements Méditerranéens (CEFREM).
CNRS-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
Thematic Topic : Oceanography

Xavier Durrieu de Madron is research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and is based in at the University of Perpignan (France). He obtained a BSc in Physics from the University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis (France), a Master in Oceanography from the University of Aix-Marseille (France). He obtained his PhD in oceanography at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), then continued at Florida State University in Tallahassee (USA) for a few years, before joining CNRS.
He is first and foremost an experimenter and has participated in or directed numerous multidisciplinary oceanographic cruises. Throughout his career, he has explored various fields of marine science, from coastal sediment dynamics, shelf-slope exchanges processes to open-ocean dense water formation, contributing to the understanding of complex interactions in the marine environment. His research focuses mainly on the Mediterranean, where he is heavily involved in both coastal and deep ocean observation systems, and akeen with the new autonomous observation platforms.