Didier Swingedouw
Climate Researcher, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Early warning indicators of tipping points | Tipping points and their driving processes | Robustness and (ir)reversibility of tipping points | Societal and ecosystem consequences of tipping points
Didier Swingedouw is a researcher at the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) and leads his research at the University of Bordeaux, focusing on climate dynamics with a particular interest in the North Atlantic region. He began his academic journey at an engineering school in Paris with a major in physical oceanography, which sparked his fascination with ocean and climate dynamics. Didier pursued a PhD at the LSCE lab near Paris, where he investigated the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) response to global warming, leading to significant findings on the impacts of Greenland ice sheet melting. His career has included roles at Louvain-La-Neuve, the French MetOffice in Toulouse, and CNRS, where he has worked on climate variability and paleo-climate studies.
In TipESM, Didier Swingedouw co-leads WP4, focusing on early warning indicators of tipping points, and collaborates with WP2 and WP3 on understanding tipping elements and their driving processes. He is also involved in WP7, assessing societal and ecosystem consequences of tipping points using observational data. Didier is passionate about bridging different research communities and addressing the societal impacts of climate change, especially in preparing for rapid, potentially disruptive events. His work in TipESM is driven by a commitment to improving our understanding and prediction of tipping points to better prepare society for future climate challenges.
Get to know Didier further in our TipESM series, Researcher in the Spotlight.
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