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Prior to returning to NCAR as an Associate Director, Dr. Brasseur was Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg for six years, and headed NCAR's Atmospheric Chemistry Division from 1990 to 2000. He has continued as an NCAR senior scientist and senior research associate within the Advanced Study Program. A native of Belgium, Brasseur holds two engineering degrees and a doctorate in aeronomy from the Free University of Brussels, where his Ph.D. dissertation dealt with the effects of nitrogen oxides on stratospheric ozone. He completed his postdoctoral work at the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, where he worked on advanced models of photochemistry and chemical transport in the middle atmosphere.

References :

· Liu, Y., Liu, C. X., Wang, H. P., Tie, X., Gao, S. T., Kinnison, D. E., Brasseur, G. P., 2008: Atmospheric tracers during the 2003-2004 stratospheric warming event and impact of ozone intrusions in the troposphere. /Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions/, 8, 13633-13666.

· Gruzdev, A. N., Schmidt, H., Brasseur, G. P., 2008: The effect of the solar rotational irradiance variation on the middle and upper atmosphere calculated by a three-dimensional chemistry-climate model. /Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions/, 8, 1113-1158.

· Shapiro, M., Shukla, J., Hoskins, B., Church, J., Trenberth, K. E., Beland, M., Brasseur, G. P., Wallace, M., McBean, G., Caughey, J., Rogers, D., Brunet, G., Barrie, L., Henderson-Sellers, A., Burridge, D., Nakazawa, T., Miller, M., Bougeault, P., Anthes, R., Toth, Z., Palmer, T., 2007: The socioeconomic and environmental benefits of a revolution in weather, climate and earth-system prediction: A weather, climate and earth-system prediction project for the 21st century. /The Full Picture/, doi: ISBN 978-92-990047-0-8, 136-138.