I recently joined the Centre de Recherche petrographiques et géochimiques (CRPG) as a CNRS-researcher in Nancy, France. 

My research aims at understanding the impact of climate variability on terrestrial environment. I am developing an approach combining isotopic geochemistry and dating on biogenic and pedogenic carbonates from aeolian sequences. I am particularly interested in reconstructing palaeoclimate data during the Quaternary by using the stable isotopic composition of original proxies such as earthworm calcite granules. I am also focusing on longer time-scales to characterise the impact of climate variability on Central Asian loess-palaeosol sequences and to explore the response of Central Asian land surfaces to climate dynamics, which could have generated terrestrial feedbacks affecting atmospheric and oceanic circulations. I have been involved in projects in western and central Europe, Central Asia and recently in Africa (Botswana and Ivory Coast). 

News

01.02.2023: New position! After almost two years at the University of Lausanne, I am happy to announce that I am starting a new position as a CNRS-researcher at CRPG in Nancy, France.

22.12.2022:  The earthworm granule's story on Journal des sciences de France culture ! (the posdcast link, in french)

01.12.2022:  The earthworm granule's story on German TV - SWR! Mit Regenwurm-Kot das Klima rekonstruieren, you can watch it here!

21.11.2022:  New publication! How the earthworm granules can help us to estimate the past climate in Europe ?  Read our new study in Communications Earth and Environment - doi:10.1038/s43247-022-00595-3 -  the press releases are also available from INEE CNRS (in french) and from Mainz University (in english/german).

11.03.2022: Landscapes live seminar - I have been invited to present my work at the Landscapes live seminar organized by the Geomorphology division of EGU -  you can watch it here !

10.02.2022: Our new publication about the geochemistry of the Schwalbenberg loess profile has been published in Catena. If you want to know more about this study, please have a look:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106076

03.02.2022 : Our new study about millennial-scale land-surface temperature and soil moisture reconstruction derived from earthworm calcite granules is available in  preprint. This study has been submitted to Communications Earth and Environment in January 2022. 

29.06.21: The Charyn Canyon's story on German TV ! You can watch it on SAT.1 

16.06.21: Botswana field work completed ! We have returned from our 4 weeks field campaign in the Chobe Enclave. 

03.06.21 : New publication! I am happy to annonce the publication of our research on Charyn Canyon in Communications Earth and Environment - https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00173-z and the press release.

22.05.21: Fieldwork in Botswana -  New adventure is coming, flying for the first time to Botswana to explore the paleoenvironment in the Chobe Enclave ! 

01.04.21: New Position - Goodbye Mainz, after four years in the Palaeoclimate research group, I am happy to join the Biogeosciences research group as a junior lecturer in the Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. I will be continuing my work on stable isotope geochemistry of biogenic carbonates, with further expansion of my geographic scope!