Michel Blanc is an emeritus professor and planetary scientist working at IRAP, France. He is also a research associate at LAM, France, at the University of Michigan, USA and has been several times a visiting professor at NSSC, CAS, China.

Michel Blanc’s research focuses on magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling at Earth and giant planets systems and on the comparative study of Planetary Systems and planetary magnetospheres. He has been an Interdisciplinary Scientist on the NASA-ESA-ASI Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan, and led the Laplace mission proposal to ESA which was at the origin of JUICE. He is a co-Investigator on NASA’s Juno mission.

His current works focus on: (1) the study of magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling at giant planets, using Cassini and Juno observations; (2) the monitoring of the terrestrial upper and middle atmosphere and ionosphere (International Meridian Circle Project); (3) planets-moons-disks interactions in giant planets; (4) future missions to Giant Planets and their ocean moons.

Michel Blanc has published about 200 articles in peer-reviewed international journals. He has been the founding coordinator of the Europlanet Research Infrastructure of the European Union. He is a member of the Air and Space Academy, of the International Academy of Astronautics and of the Academia Europaea.