Alumni

My interests are ice-ocean interactions and climate change. I am currently studying the interactions between the Antarctic ice sheet and the ocean using numerical models. My PhD thesis was on Arctic sea ice in climate models and satellite observations. In addition to scientific research, I like to think about communicating scientific results creatively to a wider audience.

I am a research engineer working on data visualization. I work closely with researchers in the lab to create visualizations and applications to promote a better understanding of the Earth. Within the H2020 PROTECT project, I’m in charge of the data mangement. Previously, I worked as a scientist on forest and timber research projects involving hyperspectral remote sensing on the one hand and signal processing techniques applied to mechanistic and spectroscopic data on the other.

I am a Postdoctoral researcher based at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), oceanographic research group and I am spending 2 years of my time in the CryoDyn group of Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE) and at St Andrews University, UK. I am funded by the Swedish research agency. The aim of my research project is to understand the processes involved at the ocean-ice interface of Thwaites glacier, West Antarctica. I am particularly interested in the interactions between basal roughness under the ice shelf and the melt/freezing processes induced by the ocean. The final goal is to reduce uncertainties in ice shelf modelling, particularly threatened by climate change and which loss could have detrimental effects on sea level rise. I use a series of models, at different time and spatial scales : the continuum ice flow model Elmer/Ice, the discrete particle model HiDEM, the ocean models NEMO (basin-scale model) and Firedrake (crevasse-scale). I am part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) in the DOMINOS team.

My PhD is on the tipping points within the TiPACCs project. I am working on the stability regimes of the ice-sheet grounding lines. I am using the Elmer/Ice model to study ice flows over the entire Antarctic ice sheet.

I’m a Ph.D. student for the SEISMORIV project (Seismic Monitoring of mountain Rivers). I study the use of seismology to evaluate the control of extreme climatic events on river dynamics. In particular, I’m interested in investigating the seismic noise generated by sediment transport processes. The aim of my work is to develop and validate seismo-mechanical frameworks at both the laboratory and the field scale.

I am the PhD student for the SAUSSURE project. Although my background is mostly on the numerics side, here I am doing a little bit of everything : I’m in charge of improving current friction laws (using analytical and numerical methods) and studying the deformation data from the boreholes installed at Glacier d’Argentière. Later on I’ll do some work on the role of hydrology on glacier dynamics.

My research focuses on numerical modelling of ice flow. Specifically, gaining a better understanding of the behaviour of ice shelves with a viscoelastic model in Rheolef. With degrees in "Computer science in mechanical engineering" and "Geomatics", as well as an exchange semester in Svalbard ; I am excited to get to use my gained knowledge and to have the opportunity to learn more about ice. My PhD is a joined degree where I split my time between UGA (France) and Swansea University (Wales).

My research uses numerical modelling to improve understanding of glacier behaviour, principally using the Elmer/Ice modelling suite. My doctoral thesis was on building a fully coupled model of Store Glacier, Greenland, including ice flow, hydrology, calving and plumes. Currently, I’m working on improving the data-assimilation capabilities of Elmer/Ice to improve model predictions.

Geography Engineer and currently PhD student at the Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE – Université Grenoble Alpes, CDP Risk@UGA) and Laboratoy of Environment and Dynamics of Mountain TErritories (EDYTEM – University Savoie Mont-Blanc). I work with remote sensing techniques, focus on satellite, aerial and terrestrial photogrammetry applied to mountain permafrost, debris covered glaciers and mountain glaciers. I’m particularly interested in permafrost creeping, natural hazards, and the link/consequences between those aspects and climate change in mountain regions.

I study the physical processes that control ice motion internally and at the bed of the Greenland Ice Sheet. I am particularly interested in determining the composition of the bed which fundamentally controls how ice moves (i.e. is the ice moving over bedrock or sediment ?), and I also seek to understand the long-term impact of surface melting on ice motion. My strategy is to test and refine our theoretically and observationally derived understanding of glacier motion using remotely-sensed datasets of velocity and ice thickness to get a more accurate picture of the processes controlling the largescale behavior of the ice sheet.

I study the evolution of the ice sheets (Greenland, Antarctica) over the last decades. My research mainly focuses on estimating the mass balance of the ice sheets with aim of establishing their current contribution to sea level rise, and trying to understand their interactions with other components of the climate system, with the aim of improving their description in numerical models. To do this, I use aerial or satellite observations (remote sensing) to allow me to estimate the evolution of the surface ice velocity.

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Njord Centre at the University of Oslo, currently posted at IGE/GLACIO to perform friction experiments on ice. My work is part of the project “History-dependent friction”, funded by The Research Council of Norway. The aim of the project is to incorporate contact history in the rate & state friction formulation. My experiments will probe the effect of complex loading histories in the macroscopic frictional behavior of ice.

My thesis project focuses on the seasonal dynamics of the flow of some Greenlandic glaciers by combining satellite observation and modeling data. From the massive processing of spatial imagery, I obtained a large velocity data set that allows the exhaustive observation of the seasonal dynamics. In a second step, I use Elmer/Ice to study the factors that induce it. At the same time, we take advantage of this study to find good practices for the preparation and exploitation of such observational data as model inputs.

After a bachelor of Geosciences focused on structural geology, I came to glaciology thanks a summer school in Svalbard. I first integrated IGE during my master to work on the coupling between the subglacial hydrology and ice dynamic. I then joined in October 2017 Christian Vincent and Florent Gimbert to do my PhD with the objective to bring new constraints on the temporal and spatial dynamics on the subglacial hydrology system using passive seismology. Over the last three years I installed a series of seismometer on the glacier d’Argentière, including a one-month survey with 98 seismometers. I am involved in the RESOLVE project.

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I study the evolution of glaciers in response to climate change on a regional scale and its hydrological consequences. I use machine learning modelling approaches combined with physical-empirical models. During my PhD, I applied these methods to the study of the evolution of all the glaciers in the French Alps between 1967 and 2100, in order to better understand the reasons for these changes, the non-linear interactions between climate and glaciers and the hydrological consequences for the region.