In the frame of OT-Med call for projects 2014 five PhD fellowships and five postdoctoral fellowships have been attributed.
We are very happy to welcome at OT-Med new PhD students who start their research in October or November 2014:
Susana Patricia DA SILVA PEREIRA
Advisors: Virginie Baldy (IMBE), Catherine Fernandez (IMBE)
Subject: Carbon cycle and biodiversity in Mediterranean oak forest: impact of climate change
Aurelien DE JODE
Advisor: Anne Chenuil (IMBE)
Subject: Understanding ecological functioning of coralligenous habitats, and building new indicators based on genetic tools to assess their GES (good environmental status)
Kahina DJAOUDI
Advisors: Elvira Pulido (MIO), France Van Wambeke (MIO)
Subject: Impact of atmospheric input on the stoichiometry of dissolved organic matter in the surface Mediterranean Sea
Mathilde HERVE
Advisors: Thierry Tatoni (IMBE), Cécile Albert (IMBE), Marie Jacqué (LPED)
Subject: Designing alternative regional scenarios for land-use and agricultural innovative management and biodiversity conservation
Chloé POULIN
Advisor: Pierre Deschamps (CEREGE), Bruno Hamelin (CEREGE)
Subject: Modern and Past recharge of the Saharan Aquifer Systems by coupling geochemical tracers (14C, 36Cl,…) and hydrological modeling
There are also new postdoctoral fellows who started their work since September 2014:
Camille CONTOUX
Advisor: Florence Sylvestre (CEREGE)
Subject: Understanding the Long-Term variability of Lake Chad environments: a paleoclimate modelling approach for a better assessment of future changes
Andres CURRAS
Advisor: Matthieu Ghilardi (CEREGE)
Subject: The onset of Corsican cultural landscapes in the Aleria Plain (Corsica). Integrated palaeoenvironmental approach
« Fernand Braudel » post-doctoral fellowship on interdisciplinary global change studies co-funded by OT-Med European program Cofund ( Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, FMSH, Paris)
Four other postdoctoral fellows will start their work at OT-Med soon:
Subject: Adaptation to environmental change: a social learning process
Postdoctoral advisor: Alan Kirman (GREQAM)
Subject: Remineralization of organic particles in presence of ballast minerals (ROBIN)
Postdoctoral advisor: Christian Tamburini (MIO)
Subject: Dynamics of heterotrophic microorganisms determined by in situ automated flow cytometry
Postdoctoral advisor: Michel Denis (MIO)
Subject: Modelling wildfire activity in Mediterranean areas and its climatic drivers
Postdoctoral advisors: Thomas Curt (IRSTEA-EMAX), Vincent Moron (CEREGE), Ricardo Trigo (IDL Lisboa, Portugal)