Denise Pumain
Denise Pumain | |
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Born | 1946 (age 74–75) |
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Geographer |
Denise Pumain (born 1946) is a French geographer. Pumain specialises in urban and theoretical geography. She is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and of the British Academy.
Early life and education[]
Pumain was born in 1946.[1] She studied geography at the École Normale Supérieure between 1965 and 1969 and received her doctorate in human sciences and literature in 1980.[2]
Career[]
She began teaching at the in 1970.[3] She became a researcher for the Institut national d'études démographiques in 1981 until 1986. In 1986, she became a Professor at the Paris 13 University before returning to the Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University to teach in 1989.[2] She also held the post of rector at the between 2000 and 2001.[4] In 1996, she founded the geography journal Cybergeo.[2]
She was awarded with a CNRS Bronze medal in 1984, decorated as a Chevalier of the Order of the Légion d'honneur in 1999 and decorated as an officer of the National Order of Merit in 2009. Pumain also became a member of the Academia Europaea in 1995,[4] became a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2009 and became a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2012.[3] In 2010, she won the Vautrin Lud Prize and also received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council to research different urban dynamics in cities across the world.[5]
References[]
- ^ "Pumain, Denise (1946-)". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "ISCN Inauguration". iscn.univ-lehavre.fr. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Professor Denise Pumain". British Academy. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Academy of Europe: Pumain Denise". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ^ Longley, Paul A.; Goodchild, Michael F.; Maguire, David J.; Rhind, David W. (2015). Geographic Information Science and Systems. John Wiley & Sons. p. 356. ISBN 9781118676950.
- 1946 births
- Living people
- Officers of the National Order of Merit (France)
- Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
- Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- University of Paris faculty
- Members of Academia Europaea
- Recipients of the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize
- French geographers
- Women geographers