Camille Parmesan

Camille Parmesan is Director of the CNRS Station for Experimental and Theoretical Ecology (SETE, in Moulis, France) and brought to France as a “Make Our Planet Great Again” Laureate. Her research focuses on the impacts of climate change on wild plants and animals and spans from field-based work on butterflies to synthetic analyses of global impacts on a broad range of species across terrestrial and marine biomes. Her 2003 paper in Nature was ranked the most highly cited paper in the field of climate change (Carbon Brief, 2015), and she was named the 2nd highest-cited author in climate change (T Reuters). She is an elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Ecological Society of America and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. She received the Conservation Achievement Award by the National Wildlife Federation and was named “Outstanding Woman Working on Climate Change,” by IUCN. She has worked with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for over 25 years, and shares in the IPCC’s Nobel Peace Prize (2007) and Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity (2022). She was a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report (2022). Professor Parmesan also has affiliations with the University of Plymouth (UK) and the University of Texas at Austin (USA).