Véronique Dehant

Véronique Dehant is a Belgian geodesist and geophysicist. She specializes in modeling the deformation of the Earth's interior in response to the planet's rotation and the gravitational forces exerted upon it by the Sun and Moon. She has used similar techniques to study Mercury, Venus, Mars and the icy satellites of the outer planets.[1] She primarily works at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, but also serves as an Extraordinary Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain.

Véronique Dehant
Born
Véronique Dehant
Alma materUniversité Catholique de Louvain (BS, MS, PHD)
AwardsDescartes Prize (2003)
Charles A. Whitten Medal (2016)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Websitehomepage.oma.be/veroniq/

Early life and education

Dehant was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1959. She received all her degrees, in mathematics and physics, from the Université Catholique de Louvain, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1981, followed by a master's degree in 1982 and a doctorate in 1986.

Research and career

Initially, Dehant's research focused on better understanding the rotation of the Earth in space (precession and nutation). She developed models that take into account the structure and interfaces of the Earth, including effects of Earth tides and core resonances.[2] This work led to a new and more accurate reference model for the Earth's rotation. Her research group was rewarded for this work with the 300,000 Euro Descartes Prize in 2003.[3]

Dehant is a co-investigator on the NASA RISE (Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment) and SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure) projects,[4] which are being hosted by the InSight mission to Mars.[5] The RISE team will use Doppler measurements to determine the rotation and position of Mars in space. This provides information about the structure of the deep interior of Mars.[6]

Dehant's work has been widely recognized. In 2003 she received the European Geosciences Union geodesy prize, known as the Vening-Meinesz Medal.[7] She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union[8] and a foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences.[9] In 2016 she received the Whitten medal from the American Geophysical Union.[10] This award is given for "outstanding achievement in research on the form and dynamics of the Earth and planets".

Awards and honors

Books
  • V. Dehant and P.M. Mathews, Precession, Nutation, and Wobble of the Earth, Cambridge University Press, 536 pages, April 2015, ISBN 9781107092549.

See also

References
  1. "Véronique Dehant, Doctor Honoris Causa of the Paris Observatory". www.astro.oma.be.
  2. "Veronique Dehant Receives 2016 Charles A. Whitten Medal". Eos. 29 December 2016.
  3. "Press corner". European Commission – European Commission.
  4. "Instrument Teams". Mars InSight Mission. NASA. 16 October 2018. Archived from the original on 13 July 2019.
  5. "NASA's InSight Mars Lander". NASA's InSight Mars Lander.
  6. "Mars, about to reveal its inner side | UCLouvain". uclouvain.be.
  7. "Veronique Dehant". European Geosciences Union (EGU).
  8. "Fellows Alphabetical List". Honors Program.
  9. "Véronique Dehant | Liste des membres de l'Académie des sciences / D | Listes par ordre alphabétique | Listes des membres | Membres | Nous connaître". www.academie-sciences.fr.
  10. AGU (29 December 2016). "Veronique Dehant Receives 2016 Charles A. Whitten Medal". EOS. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  11. "Academy of Europe: Dehant Véronique". www.ae-info.org.
  12. "Veronique Dehant". European Geosciences Union (EGU).
  13. "The Paris Observatory awards its Doctor Honoris Causa for 2014 – Observatoire de Paris – PSL Centre de recherche en astronomie et astrophysique". www.obspm.fr.
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