Valérie Duliere

Dr Valérie Dulière mastered in Physics and received a PhD in Sciences from University catholique de Louvain, Belgium. During her PhD, she worked on modeling sea ice. Then, she left for University of Washington, U.S., where she worked on regional climate models to study climate change. Since 2010, she works for the Operational Directorate Natural Environment of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Belgium). There, she has developed OSERIT, a 3D drift and fate oil spill model. Currently, she works on a wide range of applications of the Lagrangian approach from backtracking jellyfish blooms, to simulating porpoise’s behavior, tracing eutrophication problems at sea or addressing the impact of water ballast release. More recently, she started to work on connectivity in the Southern Ocean. Close collaboration with end-users and delivering tailored high quality products are of major concerns for her.

Research team: Ecosystem Modelling (ECOMOD)
Research theme: Science for a sustainable marine management