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Indus valley, Leh, India. Photo: D.Gourdon



EDUCATION

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- Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, at Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL)

Ph.D, Environmental Sciences, March 2011

- Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, Paris, France

M.Sc., Terrestrial Biosphere Sciences, 2006

- Lycée Henri-IV, Paris, France

2-year post-secondary preparation program in Chemistry, Physics, Life and Earth Sciences for entrance to French “Grandes Ecoles”.

Admission to the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, 2002.

EXPERIENCE

Mar 2022 - pres



Aug 2019 - Feb 2022




Apr 2016 - Jun 2019




Dec 2013-Feb 2016


University of Montreal, Department of Geography, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Assistant Professor


Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA

Research Associate in Prof. McColl's lab.

Response of the terrestrial water cycle to greenhouse warming



Princeton University, Department of civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, USA

Associate Research scholar

Land-atmosphere interactions and water cycle projections in CMIP5 models. Host: Justin Sheffield.


Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Palisades, NY, USA

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research project: Role of Land-atmosphere Processes in Climate Models' Projections of the West African Monsoon

Host: Alessandra Giannini (IRI)

Jun, 2011 – Sep, 2013

Dec, 2007 – Mar, 2011

Feb, 2007 – Nov, 2007


Rutgers University, Department of Environmental Sciences, and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton, NJ

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research project: Land-atmosphere coupling in reanalysis and GFDL’s climate models

Advisors: B. Lintner (Rutgers University), K. Findell (GFDL), P. Gentine (Columbia University)

Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Paris, France

PhD Student

Thesis topic: Including tropical croplands in a terrestrial biosphere model to study croplands/climate interactions

Advisors: N. de Noblet (LSCE/IPSL), B. Sultan (LOCEAN/IPSL)

Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France

Research Engineer

Research project: Weather-index insurance in West Africa

Advisors: B. Sultan (LOCEAN/IPSL), Philippe Quirion (LMD/IPSL)