Philosopher, epistemologist, and historian of scientific and technological development, Jacques Grinevald is a fellow of the Geological Society of London and a member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy. His transdisciplinary research develops around the figures of the French military engineer Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, a pioneer of thermodynamics; the Russian and Soviet academician Vladimir Vernadsky, the creator of biogeochemistry and the modern concept of the biosphere; and the Romanian American economist and epistemologist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, the heterodox father of bioeconomics. As a close friend of Georgescu-Roegen and translator of his La Décroissance (Degrowth), Grinevald was honored by the 2015 Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Award in Unconventional Thinking. His pioneering publications include La Biosphère de l’Anthropocène: Pétrole et climat, la double menace. Repères transdisciplinaires (1824-2007) (2007).