Jean Claude Jodogne
Board member
Retraité de l’IRM-KMI
Chef du département Géophysique et directeur du Centre de Physique du Globe de IRM honoraires
Jean Claude Jodogne, born on March 15, 1937, in Hyon (lez Mons), Belgium, is a distinguished geophysicist and retired department head at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (IRM-KMI). An engineering graduate from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (1959), he earned his Doctor of Science in Physics from the Université Catholique de Louvain (1965). Jodogne’s prolific career includes roles as a research associate at prestigious institutions such as Columbia University and the Institut Interuniversitaire des Sciences Nucléaires.
He served as a professor of physics and thermodynamics at various Belgian universities and held numerous leadership positions at the IRM, culminating as the Director of the Centre de Physique du Globe at Dourbes. Jodogne has contributed significantly to the fields of geophysics, ionosphere research, cosmic rays, and Sun-Earth interactions, co-founding COST231 and COST251 projects.
He co-authored influential physics textbooks and a periodic table for secondary education, with about a hundred scientific papers to his name. From 1989 to 2002, he was a member of the Scientific Council of the RMI, and after his formal retirement in 2002, he continued as an honorary department head and consultant until 2012.