Stéphanie Bodin

Stéphanie Bodin

Tropical palaeoecologist/anthracologist.

PAHIS

Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Global Change

I am currently an ATER in the PAHIS team. I am a tropical palaeoecologist/anthracologist. I use bio-indicators (charcoal, phytoliths) to reconstruct palaeo-vegetations and better understand their dynamics in relation to human activities and climatic variations.

My study areas: French Guiana, Martinique, Ethiopia, Egypt, Central and West Africa.

Periods of interest: Pleistocene and Holocene. Pre-Columbian period (West Indies-Guyana), colonial period (West Indies), Middle and Later Stone Age in Africa, Middle Kingdom (Egypt).

Bio-indicators: archaeological charcoal (anthracology), sedimentary charcoal (fire regimes), phytoliths (plant cover).

Teaching: Bachelor's and Master's degrees, animal and plant biology, historical ecology.

  • 2025-2026 - ATER - AMU, IMBE, Aix en Provence, Marseille
  • 2025 - Research assistant - Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Cairo, Egypt
  • 2021-2024 - Postdoc - Senckenberg Institut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 2020 - Temporary employee - ISEM, Montpellier
  • 2020 - Anthracologist - Arkaeos, Montpellier
  • 2016-2019 - Doctoral student - ISEM, Montpellier
  • 2019 - Doctorate - University of Montpellier
  • 2015 - Masters in Ecosystem Ecology - University of Montpellier/Montpellier SupAgro
  • 2013 - Master 1 Evolutionary Biology and Ecology - University of Montpellier
  • 2012 - Master 1 Paleontology, Paleobiology, Phylogeny - University of Poitiers
  • 2011 - Life and Earth Sciences degree - University of Montpellier
  • Tropical palaeoecology
  • Tropical Anthracology
  • Tropical botany