Education and Training
2015: CNRS researcher
2014-2015: Post-Doc: Revealing South-East African past climate, its link to sedimentary
fluxes and Hominid evolution (UBO/Ifremer Brest).
2012-2014: Post-Doc: Understanding the oceanic d18O record and its link to land
records using data-model comparisons (Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU Amsterdam).
2008-2011: Phd thesis: Importance of the Indian Ocean for Quaternary paleoclimate: the Monsoon
and the Agulhas current (Bordeaux University).
2007-2008: Master 2: environment, littoral and deep-sea oceanography.
2006-2007: Master 1: environment, littoral and deep-sea oceanography.
2003-2006: Bachelor degree in Earth and Sea Sciences.
Scientific Skills
Paleoceonography, Paleoclimatology
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Geochemistry of fossil organisms: Mass spectrometer: IRMS (stable isotopes d18O, d13C), ICP AES (trace elements Mg/Ca, Ba/Ca…)
(Illustration by Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC)
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Biochemistry of organic matter: Biomarkers, High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Gas chromatography and Compound-specific isotopes analyses (GC-irms) (dD, d13C)
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Numerical climate modelling (with water stable isotopes)
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Planktonic foraminifera (Transfer function, Automated morphometric analysis)
Scientific cruises
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2016: SAFARI Expedition 361 (Joides resolution ship, South Africa) SAFARI
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2012: MONOPOL project (Marion Dufresne ship, Bay of Bengal) MONOPOL - University at sea
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2010: SARGASS project (Pourquoi Pas ship, Bay of Biscay)