Valerie Masson-Delmotte is a French climate scientist and Research Director at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, working in the Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory.
Her research uses data from past climates to test and validate models of climate change. She examines evidence preserved in ice cores, sediments and other natural archives to understand how Earth’s climate has shifted over geological time, then applies those findings to current climate projections. She has contributed to several reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, translating complex paleoclimate data into assessments that inform international climate policy. Her work bridges deep time and the present, using the planet’s own records to sharpen our understanding of human-driven warming.
