Team Profiles
Olivier Evrard
Role in Avatar: PI together with Christine Alewell
Main Expertise: soil erosion and sediment/contaminant transfers in river systems using a multi-proxy approach (including fallout radionuclides, geochemistry, colour, organic matter properties, environmental DNA,…)
Christine Alewell
Role in Avatar: PI together with Olivier Evrard
Main Expertise: soil degradation assessment with isotopic tracers (radionuclides, stable isotopes, component specific isotopes), soil erosion modelling, soil biogeochemical and nutrient fluxes
Pierre Sabatier
Role in Avatar: PI of EDYTEM partner and Responsible for WP2 about lake sediment profiles
Main Expertise: Lake sediments, short-lived radionuclides for chronology, sedimentological and geochemical proxies, paleoenvironment, Earth Critical Zone
Olivier Cerdan
Role in Avatar: Co coordination of WP3 and WP4
Main Expertise: Soil science, Soil erosion modelling, geomorphology, Rivers, Sediments, Land Use Change, Global Change
Floriane Guillevic
Role in Avatar: PostDoc
Main Expertise: Trace metal contaminant in soil and lake sediment, metal transfer processes into the environment, stable isotopes.
Gerald Dicen
Role in Avatar: PhD student
Main Expertise: fallout radionuclides, stable isotopes, land degradation
Amaury Bardelle
Role in Avatar: PHD entitled “Reconstructing sediment transfers in large agricultural basins of South America during the Anthropocene through the coupling of soil erosion models and sediment core analyses”
Main Expertise: Soil sciences and ecosystemic services
Katrin Meusburger
Role in Avatar: Project partner
Main Expertise: Stable isotopes and fallout radionuclides as soil, sediment and water tracers - Environmental modelling and regionalization
Anthony Foucher
Role in Avatar: Soil/sediment cores collect and analyses
Main Expertise: Paleoenvironmental reconstructions using lake sequences, soil erosion and sediment export to rivers, sedimentary DNA, catchment monitoring
Rosalie Vandromme
Role in Avatar: WaterSed modeling, post-doctoral supervision
Main Expertise: Soil erosion modelling, geomorphology, soil and rock mechanics
Jérôme Poulenard
Role in AVATAR: Soil sampling, Soil and lake sediments relationships
Main Expertise: Soil genesis, Soil erosion, Sediment sources tracing, Infrared spectroscopy
Axel Birkholz
Role in Avatar: Technician
Main Expertise: Application of compound-specific stable isotopes of lipid biomarker to assess soil erosion, organic geochemistry, soil and lake sediment sampling, sample preparation
Fabien Arnaud
Role in Avatar: collection of legacy data, lake sediment sampling strategy and realisation, expert in sedimentology and geochronology
Main Expertise: reconstruction of past (10 to 10,000 years) environmental dynamics (hydrological patterns, erosion, weathering, pollutants dispersal, biodiversity changes) under geodynamic, climate and human forcing using lake sediment records.
Renaldo Gastineau
Role in Avatar: PostDoc, analysis of short lived radionuclides from lake sediment, pesticides analysis
Main Expertise: Sampling and analysis of lake sediments, sedimentological and geochemical proxies, short-lived radionuclides, paleoenvironment, tectonics.
Judith Kobler Waldis
Role in AVATAR: lab technician, knowhow transfer, coordinating radioanalytics
Main Expertise: Radiochemistry, ultratrace analytics, knowledge transfer, coordinating analytical tasks, networking
Aydoğan Avcıoğlu
Role in AVATAR : PostDoc
Main Expertise : Terrain analyses, soil erosion, weathering processes, regional inventory mapping, machine learning applications for natural hazards, and geomorphology.