Projects

Submitted

  • 2023. Agence National de la Recherche, ANR pre-proposal. GreenIce : The Greenhouse to Icehouse Climate and Biodiversity crisis: Heterogenous Transition or Grande Coupure? (PI with Alexis Licht CEREGE, Anais Boura MhN Paris, Frederic Fluteau IPGP ).
  • 2023. Agence National de la Recherche, ANR pre-proposal. Tibetop : The Tibetan-Himalayan paleotopography. (co-PI with Aude Gébelin and Gilles Ruffet, Alexis Licht, Pierre Bouilhol, Christian France-Lanord, Anne Alexandre).

Ongoing

Research

  • 2022-23. Boost Europe – ERC. Région Bretagne. RELICT. Reconstructing past Earth, Life and Climate Transitions with Paleoenvironment.eu : a free Geologic time machine to explore and create our world’s evolution. (PI ).
  • 2021. MITI Evènements Rares. GREEN-ICE. La transition Greenhouse-Icehouse. Coordinateur avec 19 collègues français(es).
  • 2021-2023. Eocene Oligocene Transition record from the Luberon basins. (Associated partner with Alexis Licht; CEREGE).
  • 2020-2023. Eocene Oligocene Transition record from the Rhine Graben. (co-PI with Matthieu Schuster; IPG Strasbourg, Alsace Region Grant). PhD: Emile Simon.
  • 2020-2024. The EECO greenhouse world, pollen as indicator of past vegetation on the Tibetan Plateau (co-PI with Carina Hoorn; Univ. van Amsterdam). PhD: Amber Woutersen (Video)

Teaching

  • 2021-2022. vGEOTRIP. Virtual geology fieldtrip for Earth Science teaching. EDUC, 5 k€. Univ. Potsdam-Rennes. PI with P. van der Beek, B. Bookhagen, M. Mutti, G. Zeilinger, K. Gallagher, B. Guillaume, D. Lague, P. Steer.
  • 2018-2022.  Geodynamic, Climate and Biodiversity International online teaching project EDUC, 5 k€. Uni. Rennes-Potsdam. PI with René Dommain.

Administration

  • 2021-2022. Conference organisation on Asian Climate, Tectonics and Biodiversity. Geological Society London. PI with P. Clift. T. Jonell and R. Dommain.
  • 2020-2024, EARTHSURF, investigating past and present Earth’s surface dynamics to quantify resilience to changes (International Research Program, CNRS-GFZ-Uni. Potsdam-Uni. Rennes).
  • 2020-2022. EDUC Seminar series. Sustainable Changes, Climate and Resources. 55 participants (Uni. Potsdam, Rennes, Cagliiari, Brno, Pecs, Nanterre).

Accomplished

  • 2015-2021 (PI) ERC Consolidator, 2000 k€.MAGIC : Monsoons in Asia caused Greenhouse to Icehouse Cooling
  • 2017-2019 DAAD fellowship 23 k€. (co-PI with Pr. M. Wilke), for Jovid Aminov at Potsdam University, Pamir evolution from Petrology and Paleomagnetism.
  • 2012-2018 (Associate Partner) International Continental Drilling Project (with PI A. Cohen and 20 associate partners), Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project, co-funding ICDP/NSF.
  • 2013-2018 (co-PI) Research fellowship (with S. Guillot, Grenoble U., K. Schulman, Strasbourg U.), DSP-TIBET Probing Deep and Surface Processes in Central Tibet. Agence National de la Recherche, ANR, France, 240 k€.
  • 2014-2017 (co-PI) Cai Yuanpei French-China exchange program (with Z. GUO, Peking U., M. Jolivet and J.-N. Proust, Rennes U.), The Northern Tibetan Plateau margin during the India-Asia collision, French ministry of foreign affairs – China Scholarship Council, 40 k€.
  • 2014-2015 (PI) Guest fellowship for advanced researcher (with M. Strecker and E. Sobel at Postdam U.), Sea retreat during the Indo-Asia collision: Cause and impact, Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Germany, 20 k€.
  • 2013-2016 (PI) Postdoc fellowship (position of Dr. M. Sier) Climate Impact on Human Evolution: Age Calibration of Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project. Open competition grant of the Netherlands organization for scientific research, NWO, 200 k€
  • 2012-2015 (PI) Marie Curie Career Integration Grant, HIRESDAT High-resolution dating of sedimentary archives, tools and applications, EU Career Integration Grant (FP7-PEOPLE-2011), 100 k€. .
  • 2012-2015 (co-Pi) Research fellowship (with PI P. Lanos, Rennes U.) CHRONOMODEL Chronological modeling and software development for data processing in archaeology and Earth sciences, Agence National de la Recherche, France, 125 k€.
  • 2013-2016 (Associate Partner) International Training Network project (with PI Y. Najman, Lancaster U.) iTECC investigating Tectonic-Erosion-Climate Coupling FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2012.
  • 2011 & 2012 (PI) Research support in Kirghizstan and Tajikistan (with C. Ormukov, Seismological Institute of Kirghizstan and J. Aminov, Academy of Science of Tajikistan), Paleogene sea retreat from central Asia and concomitant Asian paleoenvironmental change, Darius Program, Petroleum Industry Consortium, 18 k€.
  • 2011-2014 (PI) Cai Yuanpei French-China exchange program (with Z. GUO, Peking U., M. Jolivet and J.-N. Proust, Rennes U.), Cause, age and consequences of the sea retreat out of Asia, French ministry of foreign affairs – China Scholarship Council, 40 k€.
  • 2010-2014 (Associate Partner) Continental Dynamic Programme Grant (with PI P. Kapp, U. of Arizona and 15 associate partners), Collaborative Research: The suturing process: Insight from the India-Asia collision zone, National Science Foundation, 73 k$.
  • 2010 (PI) Utrecht Seminar Grant, Asian climate and Tectonics seminar, Utrecht University, 15 k€.
  • 2008 (PI) Van Gogh French-Dutch exchange program (with J.L. Bouchez, Toulouse U. and M. Dekkers, Utreht U.). High field anisotropy of hematite and goethite. French ministry of foreign affairs – Netherlands organization for scientific research, NWO 8 k€.
  • 2008-2014 (PI) ‘Vidi’ Individual fellowship, Is the collision between India and Asia responsible for global climate cooling? Netherlands organization for scientific research, NWO, 600 k€.
  • 2007, 8 & 9 (PI) Exchange travel grants, Netherlands organization for scientific research and National Science Foundation China, NWO-NSFC, 12 k€.
  • 2005-2008 (PI) ‘Veni‘ Individual fellowship, Coupling geodynamic to climatic changes during Tibetan uplift, Netherlands organization for scientific research, NWO, 200 k€.
  • 2003-2005 (PI) Marie Curie Individual fellowship, Timing of Tibetan plateau uplift and related climate change, IHP-MCIF-99-1, FP7, 140 k€.
  • 2004, 5 & 6 (PI) Chinese visitor grants, Netherlands organization for scientific research, NWO, 9 k€.
  • 2014-2017 (co-PI) Cai Yuanpei French-China exchange program (with Z. GUO, Peking U., M. Jolivet and J.-N. Proust, Rennes U.), The Northern Tibetan Plateau margin during the India-Asia collision, French ministry of foreign affairs – China Scholarship Council, 40 k€.
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