Jean-Paul Poirier

Jean-Paul Poirier, born May 13, 1935, is a French physicist, member of the French Academy of sciences.
Biography and works.
J.-P. Poirier is an engineer from the École Centrale Paris (1959), Doctor of Science (1971). He was an engineer at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) from 1963 to 1978[1] and a physicist at the Institut de physique du globe in Paris from 1978 to 2003, where he created the Geomaterials Laboratory[1].
He was elected member of the Academia Europaea in 1993[2]. He was correspondant of the French Academy of sciences in 1994, and was elected member in October 2002[3]. He has been elected to the Bureau des Longitudes[4] since 1996 and is a member of the National Academy of History of Ecuador.
He has worked on the physical properties of the deep Earth (lower mantle and core) and is interested in historical seismology.