CÉSAR DUCRUET

CURRENT POSITION

Senior researcher at CNRS / EconomiX

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Geography and regional science, network analysis, ports and maritime transport, supply chain integration, territorial development, health

 

WORK IN PROGRESS

Influence of space on network structure

Shrinking connectivity in a crisis context

Health impacts of port activities on local populations

 

  

EDUCATION

2016   HDR in Geography, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

           The spatiality of maritime networks. Maritime contributions to network analysis in geography

2004   PhD in Geography, Le Havre University

           Port cities, laboratories of globalisation

 

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2017 - 2021   Senior researcher at CNRS / Géographie-cités

2009 - 2017   Research fellow at CNRS / Géographie-cités

2007 - 2008   Assistant Professor Marie Curie EIF-FP6 at Erasmus University Rotterdam

2005 - 2006   Research Fellow, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS)

 

PRIZES AND GRANTS

2009              Marie Curie Reintegration Grant (ERG), 'Maritime systems'

2012              Prime d'Excellence Scientifique, CNRS

2017              Lettre de félicitations - Prix Amiral Daveluy, Centre d’études stratégiques de la Marine

 

COLLECTIVE ACTIVITIES

Associate member of PortEconomics
International advisory board member of PortCityFutures

Scientific committee member of RETE Association

Scientific committee member of GIS Axe Seine

Scientific committee member of SFLOG

Member of GDR OMER

Editorial board member:

- Journal of Transport Geography

- Maritime Business Review

- Portus

- International Journal of Transport Economics

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS - Principal investigator

2023 - 2026   Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) AAPG 'MAGNETICS', MAritime Globalization, Network Externalities, and Transport Impacts on CitieS

2013 - 2019   European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant No. 313847 'World Seastems'

2011 - 2012   ESPON-TIGER, WP2.3.5 'Maritime flows', Territorial Impact of Globalization on Europe and its Regions (TIGER)

2010              CNRS-Projet Exploratoire Premier Soutien (PEPS), Structure et évolution du système maritime mondial (1946-2010)

2007 - 2008   Marie Curie EIF-FP6, Towards a comparison of European port-city dynamics 

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS - Participant

2018 - 2023   Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO-IDE), Empirical studies on structure and evolution of maritime networks

2016 - 2017   Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO-IDE), Comparative studies of trends in regional structures 

2012 - 2015   Natural Science Foundation of China, Project No. 41171108, Logistics integration of ports in transport and value chains

2011 - 2013   Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations de Paris, Villes portuaires et développement durable au Maghreb

2010 - 2011   DATAR, Analyse Comparée des Métropoles Européennes (ACME)

 

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

2021   Korea Maritime Institute, "Port and shipping dynamics of North Korea"

2021   World Health Organization, "Health impacts of onshore and offshore activities in sea-port cities"
2019   Korea Maritime Institute, "Cold chain analysis Antwerp / Rotterdam"
2017   World Bank, "Maritime Connectivity for Freight Transport in the Mediterranean connectivity model"
2014   OECD, "The competitiveness of global port-cities"

 

DIFFUSION TO WIDER AUDIENCE

2023   Du Pirée à Hambourg : l'Europe sous influence chinoise ?, France Culture/Cultures Monde, 03 janvier

2022   Un panel d’outils pour décarboner les ports, Polytechnique Insights

2022   Shipping: Covid Charts a New Course For Maritime Transport, Silverbird, 31 janvier

2022   Une nouvelle lecture des relations ville-port en France, Chaîne EconomiX, 24 janvier

2021   Les ports mettent le cap sur l'environnement, France Culture, 26 Novembre

2021   Les relations ville-port et les réseaux maritimes, Institut de l'Océan de l'Alliance Sorbonne Université, 10 Octobre

2021   Ports et territoires, quelles analyses croisées ?, Chaîne EconomiX, 7 juin

2021   Routes maritimes : des grandes voies de passage à la tentation de l'Arctique, France Culture, 1 Avril

2014   Les grands ports mondiaux, Radio France International, 14 Novembre

2013   Sur les quais des grands ports du monde, France Culture, 8 avril

 

 

 

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