About me
Leading geophysicist specializing in Earth's magnetic and gravity fields.
Career
Positions & responsibilities
since 2022
Head, “Science Coordination” Department
Strategy Directorate – Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES)
Paris, France
2011–2021
Solid Earth Programme Manager
Directorate for Innovation, Applications and Science – CNES
Paris, France
2011
Deputy Director
European Center from the Arctic – Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
2009–2011
Physicist
Université Paris Diderot – Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
2005–2009
Professor
Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, Technische Universität Braunschweig
2005–2009
Head of Section 2.3
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
1994–2004
Physicist, Head of French National Magnetic Observatory
1991–1993
Various fellowships
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
1984–1994
Researcher
Geomagnetism Department, Institute of Geology and Geophysics
Bucharest, Romania
1982–1984
Engineer
Gravimetry Section, Geological and Geophysical Survey
Bucharest, Romania
Education
Degrees & qualifications
2001
HDR – “Habilitation à diriger les recherches”, Physics of the Earth
Université Paris VII
1996
PhD – Internal Geophysics
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
1993
PhD – Geophysics and Geophysical Prospecting
Bucharest University
1982
Engineering in Geology and Geophysics
Bucharest University
Awards & Honours
Selected distinctions
2025
Member, Who’s Who in France
2025
Member, Bureau des Longitudes – Académie des Sciences, Paris
2025
Asteroid 10202 is named Mioaramandea
2024
Union Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2024
Honorary Fellow, The Geological Society of India
2024
Prix Dolomieu, Académie des Sciences, Paris
2023
Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (Décret du 24/11/2022)
2022
Emil-Wiechert Medal, Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft
2022
Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences
2021
Corresponding Member, Bureau des Longitudes – Académie des Sciences, Paris
2020
Honorary Citizen of Comanesti, Romania
2019
ERC Synergy Grant “GRACEFUL”
2019
Member of the Russian Academy of Science
2018
Member of Académie Royale de Belgique
2018
Petrus Peregrinus Medal, European Geosciences Union (EGU)
2017
Chevalier – Ordre National du Mérite (Décret du 14/11/2016)
2015
Member of Academia Europaea
2014
International Award, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2008
Titular Member of Academy of Romanian Scientists
2000
Commemorative Medal, Slovak Academy of Sciences
2000
“Botezatu Prize”, Romaniae Scientiarum Societas
1998
“Hepites Prize”, Romanian Academy
1997
“Van Straelen Prize”, French Geological Society
Achievements track record
Publications & selected work
Authored 285 publications and 475 abstracts for conference materials (Dec 2024), including:
- 195 peer-reviewed publications
- 23 books and chapters in books
- 72 publications in proceedings and reports
Selected 10 publications over the last decade
- Gaugne Gouranton, C., I. Panet, M. Greff‐Lefftz, M. MANDEA, S. Rosat, GRACE detection of transient mass redistributions during a mineral phase transition in the deep mantle. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL116408, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL116408, 2025.
- Lecomte, H., S. Rosat, M. MANDEA, M. Dumberry, Gravitational constraints on the Earth’s inner core differential rotation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2023GL104790, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104790, 2023.
- Cazenave, A., J. Pfeffer, M. MANDEA, and V. Dehant, ESD Ideas: A 6-year oscillation in the whole Earth system?, Earth Syst. Dynam., 14, 733–735, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-733-2023, 2023.
- MANDEA, M., The Magnetic Declination. A History of the Compass, Springer, 116 p., ISBN: 978-3-031-09476-7, 2022.
- Dumberry, M. and MANDEA, M., Gravity variations and ground deformations resulting from core dynamics, Surveys in Geophysics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-021-09656-2, 2021.
- MANDEA, M. and A. Chambodut, Geomagnetic field processes and their implications for Space Weather, Surveys in Geophysics, 41:1611–1627, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-020-09598-1, 2020.
- Domingos, J., D. Jault, A. Pais, M. MANDEA, The South Atlantic Anomaly throughout the solar cycle, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 473, 154–163, DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.06.004, 2018.
- MANDEA, M., C. Narteau, I. Panet, and J.-L. Le Mouël, Gravimetric and magnetic anomalies produced by dissolution-crystallization at the core-mantle boundary, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 120, doi:10.1002/2015JB012048, 2015.
- Panet, I., G. Pajot-Métivier, M. Greff-Lefftz, L. Métivier, M. Diament, M. MANDEA, Mapping the mass distribution of Earth’s mantle using satellite-derived gravity gradients, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo2063, 2014.
- MANDEA, M., I. Panet, V. Lesur, O. de Viron, M. Diament, and J.-L. Le Mouël, Recent changes of the Earth’s core derived from satellite observations of magnetic and gravity fields, PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.1207346109, 2012.
Scientific Interests
Main research themes
- Space observations: Solid Earth
- Space observations: Earth-Sun interactions
- Geo-potential fields observation, from modern observatories and satellites to historical archives
- Description of temporal and spatial changes of the geomagnetic field
- Adapting new mathematical tools to magnetic and gravity data analysis
- Studies on the Earth’s deep interior
- Studies of the Mars, Moon and Mercury magnetic fields
- Studies of the geophysical changes in the Arctic region
Projects
Achieved projects / participations in projects (2005–2025)
- GRACEFUL (ERC): GRavimetry, mAgnetism, rotation and CorE FLow – Synergy Grant 855677, European Research Council
- 3D Earth (ESA): 3D Earth – A Dynamic Living Planet
- EPOS (EU): European Plate Observing System (TCS “Satellite Data”)
- PlanetMag (D): Planetary Magnetism, DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms 1488
- Geotechnologien (D): Developing tools to improve CHAMP data processing and geomagnetic field descriptions
- Swarm (ESA/EADS): End-to-end simulator and participation in definition of this multi-satellite mission
- Magflotom (EU): Ocean and core flows from high-resolution magnetic data
- WDMAM (IAGA/CGMW): World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map
- Inkaba (D/SA): Studies of the anomalous behavior of the magnetic field over Southern African Continent