CV / Resume

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Since November 2022 : Senior scientist (Research director), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement at Espace-Dev, Montpellier (France)

October 2013 - October 2022: Research associate (CR), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement at Hydrosciences-Montpellier (France)

June 2013 – July 2013: Post-doctoral researcher, Water Resources Unit of the Joint Research Center of the European commission (Ispra, Italy): Water resources efficiency simulations in Africa

January 2011 – December 2012: Post-doctoral researcher (IRD), Hydrosciences-Montpellier (France): Hydrological hazards in North Africa in a changing climate. Research grant with visiting scientist missions:

January 2010 – December 2010: Post-doctoral researcher (CNRS), Hydrosciences-Montpellier (France): Detection of changes in extreme precipitation using non-stationary models with climatic covariates 

January 2009 – December 2009: Post-doctoral researcher (CNRS), Hydrosciences-Montpellier (France): Assimilation of soil moisture in hydrological models and application to flood forecasting

September 2004 – December 2008: Research and Teaching assistant (PhD Fellow), Chair of Statistical Hydrology, INRS-ETE (Québec, Canada)

April 2001 – June 2004: Network administrator and computer park manager, Geography and Social Sciences Departement of University Paris 7 (France)


DEGREES

2018: French "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" (HDR) 

Mediterranean hydrological risks in the context of climate change

2008: PhD in Hydrology, INRS-ETE, Chair of Statistical Hydrology (Québec, Canada) 

Thesis: “Regionalization of extreme suspended sediments concentrations in NorthAmerican rivers”

Supervisors: André Saint-Hilaire, Taha, B.M.J. Ouarda

2003: Master’s degree in Physical Geography – Climatology, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France)

Thesis: “Synoptic circulation patterns associated with rainfall events in East Africa”

Supervisors: Gérard Beltrando, Martine Tabeaud


ACADEMIC SUPERVISION

Post-docs

2022-2023: Abderrahmane Khedimallah,"Changes in hydrological droughts in North Africa"

2021-2022: Dhais Peña-Angulo, "Hydrological droughts in the African continent"

2020-2022: Èlia Cantoni I Gomez, "Distributed hydrological modeling for the improvement of flood forecasting systems in Maghreb"

2020-2021: El Mahdi El Khalki, "Evaluation of satellite rainfall products for hydrological modelling in Maghreb"

2018-2019: Louise Mimeau, "Sensitivity analysis of soil moisture to changing climate conditions in the Mediterranean"

2014-2015: Hamouda Dakhlaoui, "Robustness of hydrological model parameters to climatic variability in Tunisia"


PhD students

2023-:  Sarah Gautier, "Increasing the lead-time of flood forecasting with machine learning", IMT

2023-:  Abir Naceur, "Development of hydrological forecasting in the Medjerdah basin of Tunisia", ENIT

2023- : Serigne Bassirou Diop, "Regional flood frequency analysis in West Africa in a context of climate change", UGB

2021- : Ouiaam Lahnik, "Modeling water resources and hydrological extremes in the Moroccan Atlas mountains under climate change", UCA

2021- : Rayane Bounab, "Hydrological modelling in Algeria with machine learning and satellite data", LSH

2020-2024 : Nils Poncet, "Climate change impacts on floods: added value of convection-permitting regional climate models", CNRM

2016-2020 : Oumaima Bennani, "Analysis of floods and territorial vulnerabilities in semi-arid Mediterranean environment", UCA 

2016-2020 : Madhi Khalki, "Modeling hydrometeorological extremes in semi-arid Mediterranean environments. The case of rivers upstream of Marrakech: the Gheraya, Issil and Ourika (High Atlas, Morocco)", UCA

2015-2018: Wiam Zkhiri, "Hydroclimatic variability and regional modelling in the High-Atlas mountains (Tensift basin, Morocco)", UCA

2011-2015: Said Filahi, "Past trends and future scenarios for extreme events in Morocco in high-resolution regional climate models", DMN


Master students

2019: Nils Poncet, "Climate change scenarios of hourly precipitation extremes in French Mediterranean basins", Predict-Services and HSM

2018: Pauline Rivoire, "Regional frequency analysis of extreme dry spells in the Mediterranean region", HSM

2017: Lamia Bouchenaki, "Event-based rainfall-runoff modelling of floods in the Thysse-Kaymor basin in Senegal, West Africa", HSM

2015: Khaoula Klouz, "Sensitivity of precipitation projections in CORDEX RCMs to the bias-correction and spatial interpolation methods in Tunisian catchments", ENIT and LMI TREMA

2015: Ali Morabbi, "Rainfall-runoff modelling of floods in the Ourika catchment, Morocco", LMI TREMA

2015: Ismail Salik, "Rainfall-runoff modelling of floods in the Rheraya catchment, Morocco", LMI TREMA

2015: Madhi Khalki, "Climate change impacts on water ressources in the Oum Rbia basin, Morocco", LMI TREMA

2014: Medhi Amraoui, "Climate change impacts on the hydrology of the Joumine catchment in North Tunisia", ENIT

2014: Albin Lacroix, "Climate change and hydrological impacts in the Mediterranean region", HSM

2012: Asma Foughali, "Calibration of a water budget model and climatic scenarios in the Sejnane basin", ENIT


Engineering graduation projects

2024: Issam Souassi, "Rainfall-runoff modelling in North Africa with deep learning models", ENGEES

2015: Khaoula Klouz, "Evaluation of CORDEX RCM simulations for hydrological applications in Northen Tunisia", ENIT and LMI TREMA

2013: Samah Larabi, "Evolution of future precipitation extremes in the Languedoc-Roussillon region", Polytech-Clermont 

2011: Redouane El-Khchine and Mohammed Khouya, "Frequency analysis of meteorological extremes and climate change in Morocco and Algeria", INSEA

2011: Hamada Ait Zeouay, Ahmed Bennajah and El Imam Messka, "Flood modelling with the WMS and ATHYS softwares in the Ouergha basin", Ecole Mohammadia


Courses

2015: Climate change and hydrological impacts. Master in Water Sciences of University Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech (Morocco)

2004/2008: Teaching assistant for field hydrology courses, INRS-ETE (Québec, Canada)

2003/2004: Cartography and statistics, Geography departement, University Paris 7 (France)

2000/2001: Teaching assistant for GIS and Statistics, Institut de Géographie, University Paris 1 (France)


Evaluations

Jury member (rapporteur) of the PhD defense of Omar Efrain Gutierrez Cori, 6 May 2024, Paris, France

Jury member of the PhD defense of Caroline Legrand, 10 April 2024, Grenoble, France

Evaluation of the PhD thesis of Declan O'Shea, 12 January 2024, University of Melbourne, Australia

Jury member (rapporteur) of the PhD defense of Reyhaneh Hashemi, 18 December 2023, Marseille, France

Jury member of the PhD defense of Cécile Caillaud, 15 December 2023, Toulouse, France

Jury member (rapporteur) of the PhD defense of Guillaume Chagnaud, 11 October 2022, Grenoble, France

Jury member (rapporteur) of the PhD defense of Amal John, 6 October 2022, Toulouse, France

Jury member (rapporteur) of the PhD defense of Nesrine Farhani, 7 February 2022, Toulouse, France

Jury member of the PhD defense of Maria Francisca Cardell Martínez, 29 July 2021, Palma, Spain

Jury member (rapporteur) of the PhD defense of Hafsa Bouamri, 3 April 2021, Beni Mellal, Morocco

Jury member of the Phd defense of Jacopo Dari, 29 March 2021, Florence, Italy

Jury member of the Phd defense of Khalid Barkouki, 28 November 2020, Marrakech, Morocco

Jury member (rapporteur) of the Phd defense of Quentin Fumière, 19 December 2019, Toulouse, France

Jury member of the Phd defense of Florian Raymond, 4 December 2017, Dijon, France


Member of the thesis commitee of Moussa Mohamed Waberi  (CERD Djibouti and Univ. Dijon)

Member of the thesis commitee of Saloua Balhane (Univ. Mohammed 6 and Ecole Polytechnique)

Member of the thesis committee of Guillaume Cinkus (Univ. Montpellier)

Member of the thesis committee of Qifan Ding (Univ. Aix Marseille and INRAE)

Member of the thesis committee of Elhoussaine Bouras (Univ. Paul Sabatier and Univ. Marrakech)

Member of the thesis committee of Antony Mucia (Univ. Paul Sabatier)

Member of the thesis committee of Hela Hammami (Sup'Com and Univ. Montpellier)


SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

2020-2024: Coordinator of the International Research Network: Hydrological Risks in Maghreb countries (www.rhyma.org) 

2020-2024: Scientific officer on Hydro-Meteorological hazards, EGU Natural Hazards division

2017-2020: Coordinator of the MISTRALS transverse action :"Climate change impacts in the Mediterranean region", http://www.impactcc-mistrals.org/

2010-2020: HYMEX "Flash-floods" and "Water Resources and Droughts" science teams

2012-2015: COST-Action VALUE WG "Extremes"

2016-2020: COST-Action SMIRES WG1 "Prevalence, distribution and trends of intermittent and ephemeral rivers"


Organization of the 16th Plinius conference on Mediteranean risks (https://meetings.copernicus.org/plinius16/), 9-12 October 2018 in Montpellier

Organization of the MISTRALS conference on climate change impacts in the Mediterranean (http://cc-mistrals2017.sciencesconf.org/), 16-18 October 2017 in Montpellier


Convener of session "Hydrology, hydrometeorology and climate in drylands" at EGU 2023, Vienna, Austria 

Convener of session "Hydrology of Mediterranean and semi-arid regions", IAHS 2022, Montpellier, France

Convener of session "Changes in the Mediterranean hydrology: observation and modeling" at EGU 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, Vienna, Austria

Convener of session "Extreme events: Links between science and practice” of the IAHS General Assembly 2017, July 2017 Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Convener of session "Water Security in a Changing World" of the 26th IUGG General Assembly, July 2015, Praha, Czech Republic

Convener of the session “Sediment processes” at the Canadian Water Resources Association 61th annual conference, 9-12 June 2009, Quebec, Canada

Young Scientist Travel Award from European Geosciences Union (PLINIUS conference 2012)

Member of the scientific commitee for the SHF Drought conference, 11-13 December 2019, UNESCO, Paris, France

Member of the scientific commitee for the 26th conference of the International Association of Climatology, 3-7 September 2013, Cotonou, Bénin

Member of the scientific commitee for the 27th conference of the International Association of Climatology, 2-5 July 2014, Dijon, France


Guest Editor for a special issue in the Regional Environmental Changes journal: Climate change impacts in the Mediterranean region

Guest Editor for a special issue in Remote Sensing: Remote sensing of hydrometeorological extremes

Guest Editor for special issue in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences: Changes in the Mediterranean hydrology: observation and modeling


Rewiever for:

- Journal of Hydrology

- Hydrological Sciences Journal

- Hydrological processes

- International Journal of Climatology

- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

- Canadian Water Ressources Journal

- Climate Dynamics

- Climate Research

- CATENA

- Global and Planetary Changes

- Journal of Hydrometeorology

- Weather and Climate Extremes

- Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

- Hydrology

- Water Resources Management

- Water Resources Research

 

LANGUAGES

French (mother tongue), English (Spoken, Written, Read), German (elementary level)