The Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Marine and Continental Ecology
IMBE's research is structured around 5 transversal thematic axis and 8 research teams
IMBE organizes its operational facilities around 5 technical departments
Training is, of course, the courses offered at the University (L, M, D) but also training through research (internships).
The dissemination of our scientific results is at the heart of our mission: it enables us to share and make research advances accessible to a wider audience. In addition to publications in specialist journals, the IMBE deploys a wide range of resources to popularise knowledge and make it understandable and attractive to a wide range of audiences. Through concrete actions and innovative tools, we are committed to bringing science closer to everyone, in order to establish an ongoing dialogue between science, research and the general public, especially young people.

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.