Denise Pumain
French geographer & academic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
French geographer & academic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Denise Pumain | |
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Denise Pumain in October 2013 (photo by Claude Truong-Ngoc) | |
| Born | 1946 (age 77–78) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Geographer |
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]
She began teaching at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University 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 Académie de Grenoble 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]
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