Brasseur studied at the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel and earned two engineering degrees, one in physics (1971) and another in telecommunications and electronics (1974). He then earned a PhD in physics at the same university. He worked at the Belgian Space Institute. In 1988 he joined the
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. In 2000 he became Director at the
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and Scientific Director of the
German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ). From 2006 to 2009 he worked at NCAR. He founded the Climate Service Center Germany (HZG). Today he is head of the environmental modeling research group at the MPI-M and honorary professor at the
University of Hamburg. He became a member of the
Academia Europaea in 2000. == References ==