 In 2019 he was appointed as an expert with the EU Horizon 2020 Mission Board for Adaptation to Climate Change, including Societal Transformation.Van Ypersele delivered hundreds of lectures and gave more than a thousand interviews in international media; he has almost 14000 followers on Twitter, which puts him among the 50 top world climate scientists on Twitter.He has been featured in a ministry examination for the secondary 5 level in Quebec province, Canada.