Florie GIACONA

Contact

Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INRAE
IGE – Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement
2 rue de la Papeterie, BP 76,
38 402 St-Martin-d’Hères - France
Tel. 04 76 76 28 30
florie.giacona[at]inrae.fr
Bureau 136

Research field :

My research aims to understand risks related to natural hazards in mountain environments, which are undergoing rapid changes driven by societal transitions and environmental and climate change. I conceptualize risks as complex systems resulting from interactions between specific social and biophysical components of mountain socioecosystems. My approach combines geohistory (at the interface of history and geography), with a broad spectrum of other disciplines (social sciences, physical geography, climate science, mathematical modelling) within a systemic multirisk framework.
My work is organized around three main themes :

Constructing and analyzing multi-secular (multi)risk event chronologies
Identifying and interpreting long-range spatiotemporally dynamics of mountain-risk systems (accounting for social and biophysical drivers of risks), resulting in systemic risk models
Quantifying hazard/risks changes over multi-secular scale and explaining how they respond to changing climate, social, and environmental drivers

Disciplines :

Geohistory : history – geography
Interdisciplinarity social and human sciences – geosciences
System analysis
Social sciences applied to risks related to natural hazards

Objets de recherche :

Relationships between human societies and their environment
Mountain environments
Mountain floods and debris flows, avalanches, rockfall processes, glacial hazards
Changes in hazards/risks with social, environmental and climate changes
Multirisk / interacting risks at territorial scale
Social construction of vulnerability and risks
Relationships with risks (knowledge, awareness, perception)

Education and working experience :

Education and key qualifications
2014 PhD in History. Faculty of economic, social and legal sciences / Department of History, Univ. of Haute Alsace Mulhouse, France
2008 Master’s Research in History. Faculty of Letters, Languages and Human Sciences / Department of History, Univ. of Haute Alsace Mulhouse, France

Current position(s)
Since 2020 Research Scientist in geohistory of risk related to natural hazards (floods, debris flow, avalanches) at INRAE (French national institute on environmental research). Researcher at Institute of Environmental Geosciences laboratory (IGE) and Associate researcher at Rhone-Alpes Historical Research Laboratory (LARHRA), Grenoble Alpes Univ, France.
Since 2021 Co-PI of the Mountain Risk Chair of the Risk Institute of Grenoble Alpes Univ.
Since 2024 Chair of the scientific board of the French Alpine Centre for the Prevention of Natural Hazards (PARN).

Previous position(s)
2017 - 2020 Research Fellow in geohistory of mountain risks (floods, debris flow, avalanches, rockfalls), Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Univ. Geneva (Switzerland).
2015 – 2017 Research Fellow in geohistory of risk related to natural hazards (floods). Faculty of economic, social and legal sciences / Department of History, Univ. of Haute Alsace Mulhouse, France
2014 - 2015 Lecturer in Geography, with teaching at Bachelor and Master levels, Faculty of economic, social and legal sciences, Univ. of Haute Alsace Mulhouse, France

Scientific and technical activities and responsibilities :

Co-leader of Workpackage 2 « Trajectories and dynamics of risk systems and their components » of the Projet ciblé « Mountain risks » of the PEPR IRIMA
Co-PI of the chair « Risks related to gravitational hazards in the context of global change » of the CDTools "Grenoble-Alpes Institut Risques & Résilience".
Production of a prospective note following the ARP Risques INRAE at the request of the ARP co-pilots : « The importance of the long term in understanding environmental risks ».
Reviewer for Annals of Glaciology, Climate Risk management, Cold Regions Science and Technology, Journal of Maps, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences.
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Alpine Research
Contributions in “summer school” and “researcher school” : “Ecole chercheur multirisques” INRAE (2022), Grenoble risk institute summer school (2022)
Co-manager of the Alsace Regional Flood Risk Observatory (ORRION), 2015-2017.

Supervisions :

***Current PhD supervisions :

2024-2021 Louise Dallons. Trajectoire du système multirisque de la Vallouise entre 1600 et 2020 AD. Co-spuervision P. Frey (INRAE, IGE).

***Past PhD supervisions :

2020-2017 Taline Zgheib. Backward trajectories of avalanche risk resulting from climatic and socio-environmental changes on selected hot spots of the French Alps. Bourse IDEX Grenoble (CDP Trajectories). Co- supervision N. Eckert (INTAE, IGE), S. Morin (CNRM Grenoble), A-M. Granet (LARHRA Grenoble).

***Post doc supervisons :

- 2024 Emma-Sophie Mouret. Construction of (multi)risk chronology, documentation of the drivers of (multi)risks (Aosta Valley, IT).
-* 2020-2017 Taline Zgheib. Cartographie multisources de l’occupation des sols de la susceptibilité torrentielle et du permafrost dans des hautes vallées alpines

***Other supervisons :

- 2023 Alix Bisquert, data engineer
- 2022 Camille Defernand, data engineer
-* 2024- 2023 Amélie Vautier, IT platform engineer
2022 Camille Defernand, Master 2 internship Géoïde, IUGA. Historical reconstruction of land use in the Vallouise Valley.
2021 Roman Lagalis, Master 2 internship Espace et Milieux, Université de Paris. Historical reconstruction of land use in the Clarée Valley.

Distinctions :

Awarded first prize for a PhD thesis by Haute-Alsace University (2014)

Teaching :

648 h ETD à l’Université de Haute-Alsace et à l’Université Grenoble Alpes, cours et travaux dirigés, dans des modules de géographie générale et de spécialités, ainsi que dans un module d’histoire contemporaine générale, Licence et Master.

***Geography :

Les dynamiques des milieux géographiques (L1, CM et TD)
Les dynamiques de peuplement (L2, TD)
Commentaires de paysages (L2, TD)
Villes et mondialisation (L2, CM et TD)
Introduction à la géographie culturelle (L3, CM et TD)
M1 enseignement : conflits et environnement, le Mexique (M1, CM)
Géohistoire des risques naturels en montagne (M1, CM)

***History :

Histoire politique de l’Europe au XIXe siècle, 1814-1914 (L1, TD)

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