Éric Fouache is a geographer and geomorphologist specializing in geoarchaeology. His research focuses on environmental dynamics and their relationship with archaeology, particularly in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Central Asia. Since 1994, he has participated in more than 30 archaeological missions in approximately 20 countries.

His scientific expertise covers Holocene landscape and environmental evolution, interactions between human societies and their environment, sea-level changes and coastal evolution, water resources, fluvial dynamics, climate change and natural hazards. He has published two books as author and more than 200 scientific articles and book chapters, including numerous contributions to international peer-reviewed journals.

He has held several scientific and institutional positions, including Vice-President and President of the International Association of Geomorphologists (2009–2017) and Vice-Chancellor of Sorbonne Université Abu Dhabi (2012–2019). In 2016–2017, he served as an expert before the International Court of Justice in The Hague in proceedings concerning the maritime boundary between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Since 2023, he has been President of the Board of Directors of the École française d’Athènes.

A former student of the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud and an agrégé in geography, he is co-leader of the research theme “Landscapes, Resources and Know-how in the Making” within the Médiations research unit at Sorbonne Université. He is also a member of the Institut universitaire de France and currently directs the Geography, Planning, Environment and Development master’s programme and co-directs the joint Archaeology/Geography master’s programme at Sorbonne Université.