Environment
The ‘environment’ research area aims to develop and analyse new models for environmental issues.
It aims to foster ongoing dialogue with the fields of physics, geosciences and ecology on issues such as climate change, changes in biodiversity and new energy sources.
Interdisciplinary mathematics is fundamental to modelling and understanding the Earth system, owing to its ability to formulate equations for and simulate complex systems. It thus enables the study of a wide range of environmental issues: ocean–atmosphere coupling, the prediction of risks and disruptions to energy chains, the forecasting of energy requirements, ecosystem stability, and diffusion in porous media.
For example, one of the projects aims to study climate change by coupling ocean and atmospheric models. The climate system has been broken down into building blocks to simplify the simulations, whilst these blocks remain interconnected. The aim is therefore to improve the representativeness of climate models and to provide, particularly through statistical models, measures of the reliability of the results they produce.
The second 2025 call for proposals aims to explore various interactions.