• Geomagnetism & Inverse problems
• Global and regional geomagnetic field modelling
• Geomagnetic secular variation and secular acceleration
• Core flow dynamics
• Magnetic field of the lithosphere

since 2009    Working Group Leader “Geomagnetic Modeling” within Section 2.3 of GFZ
since 2006    Scientist at GFZ Potsdam
2004 – 2006  Senior scientific officer, British Geological Survey, Earthquake & Geomagnetism Program
2001 – 2004  Scientific officer, British Geological Survey, Earthquake & Geomagnetism Program
1999 – 2001  Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds
1996 – 1999  Postdoctoral position, School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds

Others:

• Topical Editor in EGU Journal Solid Earth (since 2009)
• Leader of the ISSI international team: “The rapid temporal evolution of the observed magnetic field and the associated processes in the Earth’s liquid outer core” (since 2009)
• Member of the executive comity of the ”World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map” (since 2008)

2009   Habilitation, University of Grenoble, Joseph Fourier, France
1991-1995   PhD, University of Montpellier II, Department of Mathematical Physics
1991   DEA in theoretical and mathematical physics, University Montpellier II

2008   AGU award for ”Excellence in refereeing”

• Lesur, V., I. Wardinski, M. Hamoudi, and M. Rother (2009), The second generation of the GFZ reference internal magnetic field model: GRIMM-2, Earth Planets and Space, submitted.
• Lesur, V., I. Wardinski, S. Asari, B. Minchev, and M. Mandea (2009), Modelling the Earth’s core magnetic field under flow constraints, Earth, Planets and Space, in print.
• Lesur, V., I. Wardinski, M. Rother, and M. Mandea (2008), GRIMM - The GFZ Reference Internal Magnetic Model based on vector satellite and observatory data, Geophys. J. Int., 173, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03724.x.
• Hamoudi, M., E. Thebault, V. Lesur, and M. Mandea (2007), GeoForschungsZentrum Anomaly Magnetic MAp (GAMMA): A candidate model for the World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map, Geochem., Geophys., Geosys., 8, Q06023, doi:10.1029/2007GC001,638.
• Lesur, V. (2006), Introducing localized constraints in global geomagnetic field modelling, Earth, Planets, and Space, 58, 477–483.
• Lesur, V., S. Macmillan, and A. Thomson (2005), A magnetic field model with daily variation of the magnetopsheric field and its induced counterpart in 2001, Geophys. J. Int., 160 (1), 79–88
• Lesur, V., and A. Jackson (2000), Exact solutions for internally induced magnetization in a shell, Geophys. J. Int., 140, 453–459.