Denise Pumain
Denise Pumain in October 2013 (photo by Claude Truong-Ngoc)
Born1946 (age 77–78)
NationalityFrench
OccupationGeographer

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.

Early life and education

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]

Career

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]

References

  1. ^ "Pumain, Denise (1946-)". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "ISCN Inauguration". iscn.univ-lehavre.fr. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Professor Denise Pumain". British Academy. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Academy of Europe: Pumain Denise". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  5. ^ Longley, Paul A.; Goodchild, Michael F.; Maguire, David J.; Rhind, David W. (2015). Geographic Information Science and Systems. John Wiley & Sons. p. 356. ISBN 978-1-118-67695-0.
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