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I am CNRS Researcher, at the Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie (IMBE), Doctor in Physical Geography of the University Aix-Marseille (2014, France), co-responsible of the research team PPM “Paleoenvironments and Macroecological Processes” of the laboratory IMBE, and specialist of studying sedimentary archives, especially from lakes, to explore the interactions between Human, Climate and Environments over the Holocene.

I especially look at modalities & rhythms of socio-ecosystem responses to climate perturbations, depending on the intensity and duration of perturbations, domino effects, tipping points.

I develop a multi-indicators approach including sedimentological, geochemical and biological proxies to track the diversity of the geosystem compartments, in order to characterise the long-term changes of hydrosystems (lake, river), ecosystems (soil, vegetation) and human practices (agriculture, farming, mining, engineering).


​I have developed my approach to case studies in the Mediterranean Alps during my MSc (2010) and PhD (2014) (co-direction between the CEREGE-CNRS and IMBE-CNRS). Then, I applied it to different contexts during my postdocs (2014-2019) in the Mediterranean (Marie Sklodowska-Curie - Individual Fellowship researcher at IPHES, in Spain), in Bolivia, Chile (researcher at ISTerre-IRD-CNRS), Kyrgyzstan and Iran (Junior Leader “La Caixa” at IPHES and IMBE-CNRS, France).

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I am currently responsible of the research projects that connect interdisciplinary expertise of IMBE, IREMAM, and CEREGE, of the archive of the Past (Paleoecology, Paleohydrology, and History of the Medieval Islamic World):
 SO-LONG (Sociétés agropastorales pré-mongoles et ressources hydriques dans le bassin de l’Amou Darya): regard croisé des archives de la longue durée) fund by Aix-Marseille University throught the institute “SoMuM” (2021-2022) and,
 PROPULSE (AdaPtation et RésIlience des systèmes agrO-PastoraUx aux changements cLimatiques au défi deS archives de la longue-durEe), fund. AM*DEX Pépinière d’Excellence (2022-2024).

I am also responsible for the realisation of one Work Package in the multidisciplinary project - Paleoenvironments-Archaeology-Ethno-History - “HighStepLands” (2020-2023) “Holocene socio-cultural-environmental interactions along a highland altitudinal transect of the Zagros Mountains (Kohgiluyeh-e Boyer Ahmad Province, Southwestern Iran)” directed by A. Ricci (Kiel University) financ. by the DGF Priority Program "Iranian HighLand (Germany).

I have participated in 30 research projects, and have been previously the Principal Investigator (PI) of 2 projects :

 The project “SALTY” for “Water Resources SustAinabiLTY: minutes from ancient Persia” (“La Caixa” Foundation, code LCF/BQ/PR19/11700001, 2019-2022 - 305,100€), aimed to explore how the succeeding civilizations have faced with water shortages in the semi-arid plains of Iran (Brisset et al., 2019 - Journal of Paleolimnology).
 The project “MedCoRes” for Mediterranean Coastal Resources (Marie-Curie Action, 2017-2018 - 150,000€). Here I aimed to investigate how the last hunter-gatherers and first farmers have responded to rapid ecosystem changes in the context of sea-level rise (Brisset et al. 2018 - Global and Planetary Changes).


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My track-record (03/2023) includes 28 articles published in international journals (ISI-WoS), 12 in first & corresponding author and, 80% of them are in Q1-ranked journals (25% of the best journal of their field). I noticeably published my works in GEOLOGY, (Impact Factor:4.4); Quaternary Science Reviews (IF:4.5); Ecosystems (IF:4.3); Scientific Reports (IF:4.0); Global and Planetary Changes (IF:3.9); CATENA (IF:3.6). My papers received 548 citations (Scopus).

Amongst other activities, I have organised four symposiums in international conferences (European Association of Archaeologists in Budapest 2022 (“Facing water resources and variations in Central Asia from Prehistory to Timurid period: Disaster(s), Adaptation, Anticipation” with C. Rhoné-Quer (IREMAM, AMU), V. Kholov (Institute of History, Uzbekistan), in Kiel 2021 (« Shifting the Focus: Mountains as Central Places in (Pre-)History »), in Barcelona 2018, and in the Paleolimnology and Limnogeology Associations in Stockholm 2018.

I have disseminated my work in conferences, which has included 55 orals (including 2 invited conferences at the COP 21 in Paris) and 21 posters.

I have been awarded of 2 prizes for the quality of my research, from the International Association of Palynology and by the Groupe Français de Géomorphologie.


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