Philippe Quevauviller has been researcher in oceanography in the years 1983-1989 at the University of Bordeaux (France) in cooperation with the Portuguese Environment Ministry in Lisbon (Portugal) and the Dutch Ministry for Public Works in The Hague. He obtained two PhDs (oceanography and environmental chemistry) in 1987 and 1991, and the highest French University degree (HDR) in 1999. On the News page, we will remove the italics and use a regular font style. For each individual news article, we will increase the font size to improve readability.

He started his career at the European Commission in 1989 as a scientific officer at DG Research (in charge of QA/QC of environmental analyses), then as a policy officer at DG Environment (in charge of EU water policies) in the years 2002-2008, and back to DG Research from 2008 to 2013 in the area of hydrometeorological hazards. He then moved to the Secure Societies Programme in 2013, firstly at DG Enterprise (2013) then at DG Home (2015), where he has been responsible for research programming in the area of Disaster Resilient Societies (DRS).

From 2014 onward, he coordinated the development of the Community of Users on Secure, Safe and Resilient Societies (now Community for European Research and Innovation for Security, CERIS) and pursued DRS research programming within the Horizon Europe framework programme, with links with various stakeholders (policymakers, first responders, SMEs, research and academic organisations, civil society and public authorities) until his retirement on July 1st, 2024.

Besides his work at the European Commission, he developed an academic career as Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) during the years 2007-2019 and invited professor in various universities (Lille, Nice), and as a scientific writer and editor (with more than 250 papers and 20 books published in the international literature).

On a personal touch, he is leading several musical bands and is a music producer. To date (March 2025), he is visiting professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) of the Kyoto University for a period of 4 months. He also became member of the AFPCNT (French Association for the Prevention of Natural and Technological Disasters) and the IDRiM (Integrated Disaster Risk Management) Society.